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32. According to some of the posters here they rarely see the ugly in their feed.

Presumably the ugly enjoys the same isolation. So let's not talk about protected bubbles, okay?

These social media sites automatically build bubbles for their users. It's part of their business strategy. They let just enough content through from the other side to keep it spicy, but not enough to make wading through their sites pure drudgery.

If the site-formerly-known-as-twitter didn't sort people out into their own bubbles -- if everyone got identical feeds -- nobody would want to go there.

I rarely see any crap I find offensive on my YouTube landing page but I know YouTube is full of crap especially when I see so much of it posted here on DU. Entire sections of DU are YouTube wastelands from my perspective and I ignore those posts and forums just as I ignore posts from the-site-formerly-known-as-twitter, blue sky, facebook, etc..

Certainly DU is a "bubble" but my life outside of the internet is not a bubble, not in any way. I interact with all sorts of people face to face, many of them with beliefs I abhor. I'm not walking down the sidewalk eyes glued to my smartphone using it as some kind of social shield.

Damned right I think it's unethical to support businesses owned by Elon Musk and it pisses me off that any of my tax dollars are going his way. Musk's social media sites, SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink, grock... all of it can go to hell.

Sure, it's your eyes and ears, your choice. But there's nothing that says I have to support or defend your choice. I don't even have to politely respect that choice.

Playing "nice" with people who play dirty got us into this mess. Playing nice won't get us out of it.