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Just blocked hexbear (lemmy.today)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/rant@lemmy.sdf.org
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Its just an instance where tankies can exist in an echo chamber without having to critically think.

If you want you can read some of my comments here and watch these morons make fallacious argument after falacious argument, put words in my mouth, and project some person who makes similarly bad takes which exists inside their head onto me: https://lemmy.today/comment/17304484

Edit: there's also this thread: https://lemmy.today/post/32415724/17304693

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[–] -3 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

" A true echo chamber, isolating oneself from views that go against someone's current viewpoints, is only possible if your viewpoint aligns with the dominant views of the society you live in.

Hexbear blocked carnivore@lemm.ee for going against their viewpoints.

It is a true echo chamber. But if your general point is it's okay to be an echo chamber, because it's impossible to live your life without being exposed to other ideas... Fine, but that doesn't change the fact they are an echo chamber as a platform

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They also ban fascists, liberals, etc. Hexbear is pro-animal liberation, they don't want to see glorification of mass consumption of meat all the time. This is a silly point, you can't actually go your life without seeing meat being eaten, but that doesn't mean you have to see it everywhere you go. Same with porn, porn is censored, does that make it an echo chamber?

    I think you ignored my points, why does Hexbear count as a "true echo chamber?" What does that even entail?

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    As you conceded it's a echo chamber but it doesn't isolate people from the realities of their daily lives.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I wouldn't really call that an echo chamber, then. An echo-chamber is where you are only exposed to one side of viewpoints, that's largely impossible for Hexbear users but is entirely possible for, say, Lemmy.world users. The alternative is to let liberals, fascists, etc roam freely, harassing users and creating an unsafe space for marginalized comrades that use Hexbear precisely to avoid such situations for a tiny portion of their lives.

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