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I got banned from there when they made a stickied post saying, basically, "this is not an echo chamber, it's just a place where we only want to hear what we like" and I replied "you just described an echo chamber."
I'm sure that got removed, as you had no flair, so they couldn't confirm you had the correct opinions for their not-an-echochamber.
An echo chamber technically needs to amplify and distort input to meet the criticism.
Yeah exactly! I totally agree with you! Isn't it awesome being so awesome!!
The rabble agreeing with everything is basically that. To be completely honest lemmy is very echo-ey as well. Except most of us are just agreeing that these lunatics are indeed irrational and completely brainwashed to the point of literally harming themselves, their families and society.
I don't like this definition of echo chamber as any group with similar opinions. If those opinions are based on facts and expert advice I don't think it applies anymore. To me an echo chamber in the dangerous sense is when people have a dangerous or uninformed consensus because they don't let facts or advice from outside reach them. That's very different than people with similar opinions finding each other. The latter is just how humans are.