[jancsika]

> I must have really different experiences than all of these people that write these articles (it seems like there has been something like this, every week on HN, for the last 10 years)

Me too!

It's almost as if the recommendation algorithm and ad model end up showing and reinforcing different types of content and behavior for different sets of users.

We really need a good word for this process how different people on Facebook see different things-- how it's kind of "sifted," so to speak, in such a way that even if the user tries to venture out to find different content, they can easily end up back where they started. Like walking inside a sphere without knowing it.

For example, maybe I read articles like this one for a full decade and tried at least one time to find fake news and rabid content on Facebook. So I started looking, but lo and behold, the recommendation engine never hooked me up with the ICE Facebook group, or a proudboys group, or one of the zillion other nasty echo chambers these articles keep mentioning.

Did any of the articles you read for the last 10 years give a name to this phenomenon of keeping a user in a cordoned off area with their custom-sifted content? I'll be honest, I've never actively searched to see if such a term exists. But you'd think after all this time an article that uses such a term would have eventually been posted to my wall.

[fatnoah]

This has been my experience as well. I am FB friends with some very right wing people (Coronavirus skeptic types) and left wing people (literal anarchists). My feed remains fairly innocuous and is mostly photos and comments from friends with the occasional discussion friend.

Occasionally I do have to mute someone that's getting too annoying or use the "stop showing me this" feature for certain re-shared content. These are actions I take every few months, so it's not a very regular maintenance.