I recognise so many names on Mastodon, including people I fell out during the pandemic sometimes over fairly trivial differences of views.

I often wonder to what extent those conflicts were primarily caused by the toxic nature of twitter.

Anyway, I'm not planning to continue fighting Covid wars on here, and would welcome patching up our pandemic differences with anyone so inclined.

#Covid #twitter #polarization

@FBalloux a quick personal thank you to you for helping me stay sane during the pandemic—the constant covid-anxious discourse was really damaging my mental health, and your calm voice of reason was of great comfort to me.
@lapin @FBalloux
Same here! People like you make it difficult to leave Twitter, and now glad to see you are here and already have many followers!