Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?

• Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s the whole point of an echo chamber yes. You can say whatever you want without being challenged by other viewpoints and make anything seem plausible.

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  • mathemachristian@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    but they are linking a lot of outside sources. That’s what I mean by “backing their claims up”, studies about covid, about the ukraine war, about Israel, it’s not just someone making a claim and then everyone is nodding along.

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    • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What you’re not accounting for is how they curate who is allowed to post in the first place.

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      • mathemachristian@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I was on lemm.ee when I got radicalized, all my life Ive been exposed to people claiming all sorts of things. I was a pro-NATO pro-Ukraine anti-ussr anti-china average reddit lib that they were able to convince otherwise.

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      • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Hexbear is not able to curate who is allowed to post in other instances

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• Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s surprisingly easy to backup horrible ideas, but that shouldn’t be your only concern. You also need to think about the morals and what happened last time it was tried.

  The ends do not justify the means. The means are the ends.

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  • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The last time what was tried? This sounds like historical “knowledge” derived from memes.

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