I've been on Mastodon for a week. This has been my experience so far.

* Feelings of stress, anxiety, and hopeless anger at the general state of the world: -80%

* Friendliness and positive vibes: +80%

* Pictures of cats, fungi, cloud formations, and miscellaneous cool things: +5,000%

@iamstevenrivers Same for me. Hope it stays like that ๐Ÿคž
@iamstevenrivers Yes but part may have been US election anxiety entering in, at least for me. Feeling slightly better since?
@CardboardRobot: UK here, so that has it's own particular brand of stress. But yeah, the mid-terms seem to have gone pretty well!
@iamstevenrivers I noticed the same. A lot less snark and sarcasm too. Also a lot less idiot hot takes for clicks. All much more calming.
@iamstevenrivers sounds like a great week. ๐Ÿ˜
@iamstevenrivers thatโ€™s a good one ๐Ÿ˜€
@iamstevenrivers I'm finding I'm dipping into so many different subjects. I've signed up on a book group too.
@iamstevenrivers This place should be prescribed as therapy.
@iamstevenrivers Morning just a picture of the clouds over our local mountains
@iamstevenrivers same feeling No arguments so far, no shouty people.
@iamstevenrivers Hereโ€™s another cat for you. Our Lizzie the Ragdoll.
@NDK: Cool cat.
@iamstevenrivers Cheers. She is a sweety โค๏ธ

@NDK @iamstevenrivers

Sheโ€™s gorgeous, Nigel โค๏ธ

@TCMuffin Thank you. Sheโ€™s in for her spey this morning

@NDK

Awwwโ€ฆgentle hugs for her and you both too โค๏ธ

@TCMuffin Just had the vets call. All done and dusted ๐Ÿ‘
@iamstevenrivers Honestly, same. Itโ€™s like a hot chocolate and a cosy blanket in social media form.
@meghan: That is a very apt description.
@iamstevenrivers - Iโ€™m embarrassed now at the quality of the snaps I take. The photography on here is breathtaking! For context ๐Ÿ™ˆ Hereโ€™s Jonny #JRT
@Alikidman: ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ Cool dog, tho
@iamstevenrivers - itโ€™s as though he opened the camera to take a photo and realised it was aimed the wrong wayโ€ฆ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ
@Alikidman: For reference: my dog is also derpy.
@iamstevenrivers - gotta love them ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ’•
@iamstevenrivers I joined a couple of days ago and have had the same experience. Itโ€™s like ending a manic day at the office then plonking on your sofa in peace and quiet and saying to yourself โ€œand breathโ€. Just enjoying the calm ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ™‚
@iamstevenrivers hear, hear
I'm only getting occasional notifications from Twitter, not being able to log in there due to VPN problems - and even those notifications, shorten, incomplete tweets, reek of despair and anger at the general state of the world, like you said. I feel we should stop comparing asap and except this other atmosphere, if you will, echoes are still disturbing.
@iamstevenrivers where's the fungi?
@Zosma Sorry, I would have included it in my earlier post but there wasn't mushroom ๐Ÿ„๐Ÿ„