But this service makes Twitter soo much more useful I wonder why it is not a standard built in option??
But this service makes Twitter soo much more useful I wonder why it is not a standard built in option??
A lot of people are about to have very quiet, very calm, very rational feeds, and this isn't good for engagement metrics.
I still wouldn't go near Twitter if my life depended on it, but it will certainly help people who are already hooked.
It's like religions. Somebody who lives deep in the religion that they believing in might deny all other beliefs, and almost all religions were created from adult fairy tales (in another word, lies). But what if a religion makes people peaceful, kind, productive and healthy while strongly rejects the idea of harming the others? Is that religion bad?
Contrary to what people might think, more information does not necessarily make you more rational and reasonable. It can be the opposite, sometimes information makes you anger and hatred, while ignorance gives you the power of justice and forgiveness. That's why sometimes those who made improvement to the world were doing so from their own veil of ignorance. Nobody tell them to hate, so they helped instead.
Echo chamber is an overly stigmatize word. It's true that some people handled it poorly, thus sadly created a spiral that dragged them all the way down. But on the other hand, echo chamber can also be a useful moderate tool to keep yourself out of those harmful ideas online too. It depends on how you craft the chamber, how you use it, and whether you left the door unlocked.
I would rather use my ignorance as a vault to keep my humanity.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/s71g03/announcing_blo...
Because it works against the viral rage amplifying feedback loops that the advertisers and shareholders demand...
Guessing you forgot to hit 'copy' before you pasted that quote? Looks like you've re-pasted the same quote from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30839804) :D
I'd _intended_ to quote:
> this service makes Twitter soo much more useful I wonder why it is not a standard built in option??
Not that Twitter would openly say it.