Is creating echo chambers really desirable in our current political climate? Democracy is built on a foundation of free and open discourse, not in censoring opinions that we don't agree with. All that does is polarize and radicalize people even more.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not about an echo chamber. There are some instances that say the same few things without being reasonable. They're just political slogans and myths with little bearing on reality. If they were reasonable, sure. It'd be fine. They will take things out of context and when you provide context that goes against it they find something else to attack and act like it never happened. It's not useful and just makes it harder to see other things.

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The entire principle of reasonability lies on accepting that other interpretations of facts exist. Removing those who question the prevailing interpretation is harmful for democracy, harmful for journalism, and harmful for freedom of speech.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Sure, there are other interpretations. There's also ignoring facts as they stand. That's as harmful as anything else.

Sometimes it's not useful to hear certain opinions. I don't care about the opinion that thinks the covid vaccine makes you magnetic, which they subsequently can't verify. It's not useful and most likely harmful. It makes my experience worse while providing nothing. If I can choose to not have that opinion heard, I will. It is not helping me get a better understanding of the world and is only making my experience worse.

[–] Fissionami@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sometimes it’s not useful to hear certain opinions.

How do you define the usefulness of opinions?

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago

If it's conducive to having a better understanding of reality probably.

The "covid vaccine makes you magnetic" opinion that I used in the example does not. Their beliefs are based in fairy tales and they don't care to question it, or if they do they somehow convince themselves that when it doesn't agree with they're beliefs that they're somehow still right.

[–] Aikawa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, it's not a matter of opinions; I just can't stand Hexbear's ugly emojis polluting my screen.

There's also them assuming that anyone disagreeing with them must be a pro-murica propaganda-guzzling librul, as well as contrarianly shilling for anything that is anti-DaWest™ (or was once communist, if we take some liberties with the term), but that's far less important 🤓

[–] zephyreks@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So... It's Lemmy's problem for not exposing control over emoji size? Sounds like a feature that should be pretty easy to add.

[–] Aikawa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago

It's not so much the size than the spam that I find annoying. It makes comment sections look like a 2003 blog. A size control feature would be welcome though; but what I'd really like is a "Show Custom Emojis" setting, like we have for scores or avatars.

[–] Gsus4@feddit.nl 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think you can do that with an adblocker like ublock: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/1887301 this was a suggestion for a beehaw user, but you can replace it with your instance.

beehaw.org##.person-listing[title$="@hexbear.net"]:upward(:is(.post-listing, .comment))
beehaw.org##.post-listing:has(.community-link[title$="@hexbear.net"])

PS...lol I haven't got it to work yet 😅 , research, try your luck.

[–] Aikawa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

I couldn't quite make it work either, but thanks anyway! Hadn't thought about using uBlock for that.