Add my "what went wrong" take to the pile

[EarlG]

58. DU has always been a bubble!

If all points of view were welcome here, this would be a completely different community, and I'm guessing most of you probably wouldn't be here, because it would suck. We restrict viewpoints because this place has a specific purpose -- to let people with center-to-left political views hang out and chat to each other without right-wingers interrupting, and we're not hiding that fact. Any community dedicated to a specific point of view is going to create its own information bubble.

However, we still use an old-fashioned delivery system. I know some people joke about DU being addictive, but it's not actively engineered to be that way. The information on DU is all brought here by other human beings, who read or saw something interesting and wanted to share it with people that they know have a similar point of view. It's not delivered by a computer algorithm that has analyzed your entire life and is dedicated to keeping you hooked on content that it knows you can't put down.

And at the end of the day, I think most DUers are relatively skeptical about information and are keen to make sure that the information they're reading is true. Most of the time, whenever someone posts an OP that's clearly factually incorrect, even if it is something that looks bad for Republicans, you will see DUers immediately rush to correct them, rather than spread the misinformation as if it is real. That's the opposite of how most social media works, where false information is peddled as quickly as possible to vast and credulous audiences.