If we are throwing around big words, we have to be precise though.

Echo chambers always existed and we are in them all the time. A few hundreds or thousands years ago, we lived in small groups. Those definitely had different opinions, but overall had the same values. Those were echo chambers. Now, where those bad? No, you want people to be in line on foundational topics.

But if you start to manipulate these opinions on the ground level, you’re going to divide people.

Global warming? Is it really that bad? Migrants? Aren’t the stealing our jobs? LGBTQ+? Aren’t they just harassing our kids and women? Hitler? Was he really that bad???

Do you get what I mean? Echo chambers aren’t the problem. They always existed. It’s bad influence that turns everything to shit.

I also hate when people think an echo chamber is something inherently bad. Everything is an echo chamber. Your family, your friends, your local gaming community, your workplace. An echo chamber only becomes a problem when bad actors take control.

Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, or even Google. They give a shit about your wellbeing, as long as they profit.

Echo chambers are okay, no even necessary to stay mentally sane, as long as people share their honest takes without large scale agendas and manipulation.

Controversial take

Meta still collects all the meta data it gets it’s hands on. Also WhatsApp is completely closed source and proprietary. You will never know if they properly encrypt your stuff and if the private keys really never leave your device. You still have to trust Zuckerberg that he properly protects your data … from him.

Europeans don’t like Nazis.

I wish this was true.

Greetings from Austria, where a far right party is the strongest, although not ruling (yet)

Oh boy…

“federated”

That’s were the marketing dollars are

Only EE. The CE is FOSS https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE/blob/canary/packages/backend/server/LICENSE

If you are still on this platform, you are part of the problem. No excuses.

https://affine.pro/pricing

https://affine.pro/

Nobody needs another distro. Europe should go with any popular Linux distro.

I’m not a woman

Ah give me a break. Can’t there be something that is designed specifically for women without you feeling excluded? Nobody says that you aren’t allowed to participate.

This was just a post to see if there already is something like described

You should definitely be working in IT at least. Don’t forget that you are responsible for personal data from your users.

Price-wise it’s not that expensive to host a Lemmy instance. A few hundred users cost you 20 to 30 euros a month.

Not a woman.

Sounds racist. You see the problem?

I haven’t written anything about excluding other genders. It’s only about a women centric place with additional moderation protection and administration and moderation by women (and yes, these can also be trans women or even men admins and mods if the group decides so).

But why excluding men or anybody else from participating, as long as they stay on topic?

Division is made when you divide the people.

Having a space for women by women isn’t division. It’s about creating a safe space.

Just in general already against the massive structural issues with Lemmy

What structural issues?

It is a group of people who like to constantly divide

Isn’t this normal human behavior? Still doesn’t mean that people are enemies because of splitting into different groups.

“Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women?”

Where is the division?