I feel your general take on communities, have witnessed it. And yeah, bubbles and tribalism are fun in many contexts (for instance, i love it in sports).
I thought your take on social media was just filtering people out on the basis of certain opinions and then those that pass the filter are what constitutes the pool of people you will interact on the whole platform from then on, not that it was a filter for groups you build inside of it. I get that.
In my mind, you were closing yourself off from thousands of worthwile people forever just for something that may not define them in the slightest.
Moderation belongs to the individual user for their own experience, i really agree with that. And your take is really in that vein, similar to the fediverse.
But yeah, i’m kinda fighting the bubble as of now (specially on politics and petty stuff). I’ve done many 180s on what is considered as “important” opinions, and it didn’t cost me or changed me much as a friend. The boundary was imperceptible, so why bother to isolate.
I havent blocked anyone on social media unless its spam or an annoying bot. I am pretty serious on my stance 