Comment on Are We Watching The Internet Die?

• Penguincoder@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  where there’s a tree of people you’ve invited And that is how you get singular point of view echo chamber.

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  • Robin_net@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most of the internet is made up of echo chambers now even though anyone and everyone can access a majority of it. I don’t think being selective in who we allow into communities worsens the pre-existing echo chamber issue. If anything it may help to be more selective. It can sometimes be impossible to tell the difference between trolls, bots, and real people, so I feel like we assume every person we disagree with is a troll or bot. The issue with that is that we may be outright dismissing real opinions. In theory, everyone in a selective community is a real person who is expressing their true thoughts and feelings.

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• flashgnash@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t think that’s a perfect system anyway though, spammers could create a massive tree of fake accounts and just only use a small proportion of them for spam

  Use a number of compromised user accounts to set this up and it becomes a nightmare

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• OneRedFox@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a trade off that we’ll probably have to take unless we want to deanonymize the internet.

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