I like echo chamber, that's a good way of putting it.
The other thing I mentioned in the discussion was confirmation bias, where you assign more importance to something which confirms what you already thought and less so to something which disagrees. So even if you do encounter the odd person with the opposite opinion your brain will filter it out.
Exactly, that's the principle behind your whole point and completely valid.
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