It dawned on me today that the kind of people who criticize others for “living in an echo chamber” online are the kind of people who think everything should be ridiculed by anyone who disagrees, whether it’s right or wrong. The kind of people who bend first amendment rights to support knowingly spreading misinformation because wE hAvE fReE sPeEcH.

They approach life like it’s a daily challenge to be as contrarian as possible simply because they’re technically allowed to.

People say places like Bluesky and Mastodon are echo chambers because we block people with harmful takes. I don’t go on social media to practice for debate team. I mean it’s like saying you’re shitting on someone’s first amendment rights because you went to a friends birthday party and you politely tell the guy wearing the MAGA hat you don’t want to talk politics. He absolutely fucking loses it and calls you a woke snowflake because you aren’t willing to have an open debate on the spot.

Everything isn’t a goddamn debate. Sometimes people just want to hang out with other people who are into the same things as them.