This article about the recent arrival on Mastodon of many Twitter users from is by far more complete than many others I've seen these days: qz.com/india/1746734/angry-twi
But unsurprisingly it ends with a common doubt about Mastodon being a platform filled with echo chambers.

Well, being an italian that in the last days interacted with so many people from India and having learned from many new things about indian society from them it sounds fun 😄

On Mastodon you can find and interact with a huge amount of different communities: LGBT communities based in UK, vegans from the States, german metalheads, Solarpunks, some algerian guys, italian anarchists, french hackers, anime-fans from all around, indian muslims, south american activists...

It's a kind of variety that is rarely encountered on commercial social media.

Anyway the risk of creating an echo chamber on Mastodon exists: if you are on an Instance run by a community that refuses any interaction with everyone that doesn't share your views you can easily isolate yourself.

But that also happens in real life if you refuse to hear anything but yourself!

That's up to the maturity of a community to be more or less open to the others!

You cannot force somebody to hear you: it never works.

At the opposite on comnercial social media your echo-chamber is created not by you but by algorythms that decide what you must see and what not, who you may follow and what is the topic you should care today.

Which of the two approaches is more human?

@Ca_Gi probably, echo chambers are not as bad as filter bubbles (that is how I would call the echo chambers created by algorithms). they both leverage on the same psychological drive but filter bubbles are artificially created to exploit us

@caycepollard filter bubbles should help people to receive information of interest @Ca_Gi

@aaronwinstonsmith @Ca_Gi especially information that people "like", information that confirms what they already know/think. the point is they are not created to help, they are created to sell ads

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@caycepollard @Ca_Gi yes, expecially information which interest other peoples in the bubble. These tecnologies has been develop to limit the overwelming of information.

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@aaronwinstonsmith @Ca_Gi I think that this is a by-product. These algorithms have been developed to gratify the user and make her/him stay longer on the given social or platform. The more you stay the more valuable are the ads on your page

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