Seeing some posts talking about fediblocking turning Mastodon into a "filter bubble." No. We absolutely do not need abusive or fascist views to have a high level of intellectual diversity. Full stop. That hate can fester somewhere else.
After 20 years of social media, the experiment has been run. Hateful people are unconvinced by rational argument, so there's no point engaging with them.
This is a rotten, disingenuous, meritless argument, from A to Z.
Fascism is to be defeated, not debated.
@sean the echo chamber argument is misunderstood, imo. An echo chamber is where you never hear anything other than your own voice. You can avoid that without having to be friends with the school bully.
Yes you can. And you can also avoid that while insisting on only viewpoints grounded in facts and valid data.
Put another way, science is not an echo chamber.
