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        "plaintext": "I’d call it an interactive experience, which unfortunately makes it sound more pretentious than it actually is. But it’s one that showcases, using data, how social media algorythms are more-or-less designed to to harmfully distort your view of the world. As the site itself says:"
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        "plaintext": "It’s better if you go in as blind as possible, so that’s where I’ll stop describing it."
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        "plaintext": "What I will commentate on is that I think this hits on one of the main reasons I’ve quit most of the major social media platforms. I didn’t have the data when I made this decision, but I felt the harm it was doing to my mental health. I’m mostly settled in the ATmosphere as my digital home since I can control my feeds. But even Bluesky is not immune to becoming an echo chamber."
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        "plaintext": "Are there solutions? Go to The Noisy Room and find out ;-)"
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  "description": "A reminder of the \"echo chamber problem\"",
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  "textContent": "While covering Mr. Mobile for last week’s edition of Something Chill, I scrolled through his Threads account and found something interesting. It was a link to The Noisy Room.\nI’d call it an interactive experience, which unfortunately makes it sound more pretentious than it actually is. But it’s one that showcases, using data, how social media algorythms are more-or-less designed to to harmfully distort your view of the world. As the site itself says:\n> Only 3% of social media users post toxic content. But the algorithm makes it look like everyone. This interactive explainer shows how it works — and what a fix looks like.\nIt’s better if you go in as blind as possible, so that’s where I’ll stop describing it.\nWhat I will commentate on is that I think this hits on one of the main reasons I’ve quit most of the major social media platforms. I didn’t have the data when I made this decision, but I felt the harm it was doing to my mental health. I’m mostly settled in the ATmosphere as my digital home since I can control my feeds. But even Bluesky is not immune to becoming an echo chamber.\nAre there solutions? Go to The Noisy Room and find out ;-)"
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