@Obscurequokka humans are tribal by nature. Your fighting a losing battle 🙂

Millions of years of evolution has programmed us to find like minded people and that's all that's happening.

@Obscurequokka well yes and no. You have to realize that social media is only enabling and amplifying what we normally do.

Instead of being like minded with a few people we're doing it with millions now and creating an echo chamber and feeding off each other on a national level ie Antifa, BLM etc are born.

Is it social media's fault? I'd have to say no. That's like blaming the gun instead of the person for killing someone. 🙃

@Obscurequokka interesting thoughts. In my time being a nerd I’ve seen a lot of what you call purists. I call some elitists. Tech sector seems to attract them for some reason, and I have my theories why. The internet is the best and worst thing to happen to humanity, and I think it’s now programming new generations - the “good” of humanity comes from the society in which it lives and holds its values. The internet may not be the best place to cultivate goodness as a sole source due humanity.

@Obscurequokka Reddit and Twitter are not anonymous and are nowhere near algorithm free.

Personally, I think that its a pattern of algorithms that facilitate human nature.

@Obscurequokka You're totally right. I'm used to dealing with people who don't really understand platforms and their control and privacy implications, so I just kind of went into correction mode. You're right and I apologize.

@Obscurequokka Yeah I guess so, I think it more depends on your definition. There are content duration algorithms, user algorithms, group algorithms, etc. I was looking in a more broad sense but you're absolutely right, you can configure most of them to have much less strongest content creation and recommendation settings.