@ruford1976@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • edit-29 months agoIs there anything we can do to fix social media echo chamber, what changes should be done to lemmy to stop it from turning into one?www.psypost.orgexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up119arrow-down1external-linkIs there anything we can do to fix social media echo chamber, what changes should be done to lemmy to stop it from turning into one?www.psypost.org@ruford1976@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • edit-29 months agomessage-square19fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•edit-29 months agoWhat are you doing in an echo chamber (or wall, or similar situation) in real life? You clap your hands. It is the first and easiest thing. **We should stop all low effort posts. ** They are just handclapping, the easiest way to produce an echo. Note that this includes all posts that consist only of an external link with no own explanation or comment.
minus-squareDeconceptualistlinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-29 months agoSo what about posts that just link to a news article? Isn’t this a good place to discuss current events and professional journalism? And who decides what counts as low effort? Is just asking a question not enough? Does a user need to prove prior research? I agree with the goal of improving the signal-to-noise ratio but practical enforcement of that isn’t trivial at all.
minus-square@NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•9 months ago So what about posts that just link to a news article? Yes, they are made with very low effort. And most of these posts want to promote something. This is ‘echo chamber’ at it’s best. If you want to discuss that topic, then you would simply write your thoughts to the link with your post.
What are you doing in an echo chamber (or wall, or similar situation) in real life? You clap your hands. It is the first and easiest thing.
**We should stop all low effort posts. **
They are just handclapping, the easiest way to produce an echo.
Note that this includes all posts that consist only of an external link with no own explanation or comment.
So what about posts that just link to a news article? Isn’t this a good place to discuss current events and professional journalism?
And who decides what counts as low effort? Is just asking a question not enough? Does a user need to prove prior research?
I agree with the goal of improving the signal-to-noise ratio but practical enforcement of that isn’t trivial at all.
Yes, they are made with very low effort. And most of these posts want to promote something. This is ‘echo chamber’ at it’s best.
If you want to discuss that topic, then you would simply write your thoughts to the link with your post.