Why not both?
Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this
DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml 4 weeks agoSocial media as a whole is several echo chambers all clumped together. Like-minded will all gather together to prop up their ideals and push out and ban anyone who disagrees.
That or it’s 80% bots all deciding which comments and posts to give attention to.
Those are the only two logical reasons I can come up with for that happening.
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 4 weeks ago
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The internet has allowed people, who would’ve otherwise have lived in isolation with their crackpot thoughts, to find each other.
DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
It also helps them to evolve their crackpot theories into even grander ones. Behold the power of collective stupidity.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Great simple minds think alike.