Comment on The Great Decentralization: What happens when sprawling online communities fracture into politically homogenous, self-governing communities?

HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• drwho@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Politics sucked just as hard when people couldn’t. The only real difference is, now people know that there are folks who ignore them and they hate that.

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah.

    We are already seeing bubbles from where people are getting wildly different news and other discussions. As the echo chambers solidify, you are going to be seeing more where different political groups can’t even discuss the facts of an issue. It is only going to get worse.

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    • drwho@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We already have that. It’s been the state of affairs since 2016.

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      • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And I’m expecting it to get worse.

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• Kichae@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But people are not curling up in anything. They’re having third parties, that have their own political interests, feed them an image of reality.

  This is wildly different from self-organized communities built around existing common interests or beliefs.

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah they are. It just doesn’t correspond to pre-internet political groups.

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