Agreed, the problem isn't technical, it's political. Sometimes I wonder if people actually understand what "politics" actually means or ultimately entails. Politics is the result of wants. Person or group A wants things one way, Person or group B wants things another way, and these two sets of wants
directly conflict in someway. How do you remedy who gets to have what they want in such a situation? That striving for getting what you want, is the
literal definition of politics. At extremes, it means fighting one another to the death to resolve the matter (war/violence). Often times though, it's remedied by a bipartisan solution (which explains most things you see passed by governments and outcomes involving multiple parties), but such a solution only ensues when all parties involved
are willing to have such a solution. If one party doesn't want such an outcome, and is still
willing to fight to the death over such a matter, then that's sort of what happens...
Anyhow, with that said and by no offense, I find your post a bit ironic. Particularly that you imply it's an issue needing to be fixed, that people on twitter:
- can have extremely polarized views
and
- only consume the content that aligns with their views
These two are related, do you not see? Reducing polarized views, entails reducing the possible content that people could view on the platform, and thus is essentially restricting the platform to an aligned view or set of approved views (even if slightly - which means doing so would be polarizing in its own way). Basically, outside your post (imo correctly) stating that this isn't a technical issue, your post to me is like saying: "Twitter isn't the media I want to consume, as there exists viewpoints on issues on the platform (held by other people) - extreme polar opposite views which I don't like, and I only want to consume media that I like." Which would make you guilty of:
- wanting to only consume content that aligns with your views