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>These are not defined in a strict mathematical sense, and they don't actually exist, but the phenomenon certainly does. That's my point, I'm disputing the central assertion that these phenomenon actually model reality. >For example, hordes of Twitter users have self-selected who they follow until they're exposed to opinions that agree with their own. This is and has been happening out there, in the real world, to re…

> But it hasn't been shown that they always do it, or do it for the same reason in every case. We don't need them to always do it, or for any reason. The fact is that it does happen, as evidenced by, e.g., https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-echo-chambers-are-very-rea...

Shockingly, I read the actual study.

"However, as we focused on politically-savvy users on Twitter, the reader should not infer that our observations generalize immediately to other settings, or that echo chamber effects are as pronounced for the general public."

Exactly what I said - " But it hasn't been shown that they always do it, or do it for the same reason in every case."

I don't know why you are pointing to a study that agrees with me.

Re: Consuming Hacker News

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The RSS feed (https://news.ycombinator.com/rss) comes into FreshRSS (https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS)

Usually just skim the comments to gather insight as quickly as possible, if there seems to be a strong signal with depth, I'll add the HN page to Pocket (https://getpocket.com) and check back later when I clear through all the backlog of interesting things

HN has replaced Reddit for me. I'm still reading Slashdot, two decades later, it usually just dupes HN.

Also Lobsters (https://lobste.rs) has some decent content, similar position in that it often dupes HN, but interesting regardless

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