Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?
Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 11 months agoThat’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.
mathemachristian@lemm.ee 11 months 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.
Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
What you’re not accounting for is how they curate who is allowed to post in the first place.
mathemachristian@lemm.ee 11 months 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.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Hexbear is not able to curate who is allowed to post in other instances
OpenStars@discuss.online 11 months ago
You seem to have lost the thread of this conversation, but this is how it started. Hexbear admins and mods definitely control who is allowed to post in Chapo Trap House, and related communities such as the_dunk_tank, even from instances other than Hexbear.net.