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@nprofile…3kqn All I have heard about it is the founder went to jail for his principles, which seems like a plus.

2026-04-07 04:37:54 CEST

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@nprofile…uptt You're looking at a tidal wave of criticism crashing into you and calling it an echo chamber. The echo chamber is when you are never exposed to exactly that. In an echo chamber, you don't realize you're in one; the only viewpoints you're hearing are your own.
The argument we're having isn't over whether people leave because they get criticized too much. That's obviously a real phenomenon. It's over whether that constitutes an "echo chamber." Those people leave because they are used to echo chambers.

2026-04-07 04:34:32 CEST

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@nprofile…uptt I don't think you're going to be persuaded away from this view. However, the reply guys exposing you to a paradigm different from your own, holding you to expectations you're unfamiliar with, are exactly what makes it not an echo chamber. If nobody ever bothered you or came into your notifs to disagree with you, you'd be in an echo chamber. Which it seems is what you're used to.
In most social media, there might be Nazis and communists on the same website. The algorithm constructs separate "bars" for them by simply not showing them each others' posts, heavily auto-moderating what language you can use in your posts, and recommending you people to follow that you like to interact with because you agree with them.
That is what builds social media platform retention. Mastodon has none of that. Instead, you defederate the Nazi bar and only talk to the bars that don't allow Nazis. Most people don't "get" that because it's always been done for them. And that's OK.

2026-02-19 18:29:55 CET

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@nprofile…rkgj OH that makes way more sense, it being GoT explains the horrifically drab gray filter over it all too. still it's a terrible representation of brutal medieval combat IMHO, I much preferred The Last Duel even with its idiosyncrasies. I did see that the fight I presume this comes from includes some techniques from actual manuals but yeah I'd never show this to a Hollywood exec and be like "this is what it should look like!"

2026-02-19 18:13:52 CET

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@nprofile…rkgj this is nonsense with no bearing in actual medieval warfare though, surely you don't really want this?

2026-01-14 16:37:17 CET

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@nprofile…rkgj that's not how plague spread, it was carried by their fleas. so I suppose the caption is accurate

2025-06-30 16:14:31 CEST

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@nprofile…h6f2 @nprofile…vrgz vs no it isn't