[fragmede]

> it's not an echo chamber

It very much is, to the point that this place is derisively called "the orange website" by those who can see it for that. You might agree with the precepts so it doesn't seem that way to you, but the sooner you can recognize them, the better off you'll be.

[caslon]

I derogatorily call this website "the orange website." That doesn't make it an echo chamber. For as many awful opinions on political topics or type systems there are on this site, there are people who object to them and comment that they do. Hacker News has a tendency to let people say offensive things; this doesn't make it an echo chamber. It doesn't make it good (about 1/5 of the threads are good), but it doesn't make it an echo chamber. Even things that should be pretty much just echoes, like threads about people who killed themselves, often aren't. Because even when someone has killed themselves on this website, people will always come out of the woodwork to say that it was their fault, in contrast to popular opinion. It's not an echo chamber, it's an amplifier.