I think the echo chamber thing may be because there is no algo pushing some accounts vs others ie you have to go find your community and people you like. You have to go message people about questions you have etc. Perhaps we have become lazy from previous social media algos and now we got Stockholm syndrome and expect everything to be done for us. I recently started this account as a side from my personal one and noticed a lot of accounts that I hadn't before just cos I was trying to find certain groups and people I hadn't before. My 2 sats. 

I don't think it's broken just how it works here. Woke. Haven't seen many. Abandoned. Verified users are shrinking it seems. Although other stats say growing. 

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