Should Steemit Be an Echo Chamber?

Steemit is a social media platform that you are paid to post. It is a decentralized platform that means no central authority governing on what to post or comment. It is supposed to be a place where censoring is zero. That was the selling point. The most amazing thing is there were no adverts. Sweet.

Many of us could not wait long enough to get signed up. We signed up and truly we got paid to blog. That was the best thing to happen to me, only comes second to the invention of sliced bread, and jollof rice! I was overhyped and overjoyed plus other overs too numerous to be mentioned in this short article.

Then I started noticing something, almost everybody agrees with everybody. Discussions as I know it seems a little bit weird. You will see a post about How I Murdered My Landlord, below it, you will see something like.


Good post. Nice article.

Wow. I upvoted.

I resteemed and upvoted.

I like this post.


It would be hard to see someone ask why would you murder the landlord instead of paying him the rent you owed him.

It is only in the rarest of circumstances do you see someone with a different view to that of the author. That takes me to my next article.

How Do You Handle People of Different Opinions?

Do you fly into a blind rage, downvote the opposing view, ignore, or try to engage rationally with the view?

There is this tweet on Oct 14 from @lukestokes

Really smart, rational people disagree on big, important ideas. It happens. The trick is understanding and respecting each other anyway.

I believe smart people are not something hard to find on steemit. I like hearing opinions that are different than mine from time to time. Seeing everyone agree on things is almost like hearing myself speak in an empty large room.





This is not suggesting the need to oppose every view seen on steemit. But there may be a very good explanation for this seeming echo of thoughts, opinions, outlook, ideas etc. People may only contribute to the article they agree on. That is fair enough and logical.

It is the only thing I could come up with that logically explains this phenomenon that kept occurring on a daily basis here.

I know the issue of upvote may be another huge cause of this echo. No one wants to piss off the author so he or she could still upvote them.

I know conversation in other social media tend to be more balanced than I have experienced so far here. I am merely writing from my personal experiences and this is no way a representation of the actual state of other people's experiences.

As usual, I would like to hear your opinion. Feel free to say what is in your mind. I do not bite, neither do I have the strength to enter into a war with anyone :)

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