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Comment by Neil44 | Hacker News Reader

That's just about adding more people to your echo chamber though isn't it?

This idea that you should "escape your bubble" on the internet being better than not is confusing to me. If someone enjoys a personalized experience that's what they should have. Or are you telling someone who only reads fiction horror books that they need to escape their echo chamber and read other stuff because under your definition they are not eclectic enough in the media they consume?

"Needs to escape their echo chamber and read other stuff" is a bit too strong, but if you moderated it to "would benefit from escaping their echo chamber and being exposed to other stuff" then yes, I would take that position for literature preferences as well as political news.

I sometimes read literature outside my comfort zone. Sometimes I put it down -- not for me. But occasionally I discover a new genera I enjoy.

The trouble with political content is the style rather than the content, I think.

If you see ads for Ground News on YouTube they make it sound like you need add up what the right-wing ideologues say and what the left-wing ideologues say you get the truth. I get accused of being a “centrist” when I point out that people are using a toxic, hateful and othering style of communication (e.g. capitalizing Black doesn’t do anything about the difficult and long-standing problems of racism, maybe even mocks or trivializes the problem, but it sure polarizes the world into big B and little B people)

pretty fun though.

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