The Noisy Room

Only 3% of social media users post toxic content — but Americans estimate 43%. An interactive essay about algorithmic amplification, misperception, and a proposal to fix it.

The Noisy Room (thenoisyroom.com)

Everyone building communities on the fediverse should read this.

Quote: "Social media has no public square. It has 300 million private windows, each showing a different distortion of the same room. Illuminating the common thoughts between us has the potential to radically change it."