On Twitter, I tried to avoid RTing anything that talks about bad things happening in the world, because I saw that it was becoming a depressing place to be. I felt that it had crossed a line from highlighting worthy causes to simply indulging in despair over evils in the world.

Do CWs fix that? Do you find that, if you are not in a good place and you see a CW that tells you the post will make your mood worse, you can easily move past it? Do you expand them all anyway without thinking? Do you feel guilt for ignoring real problems if you scroll past?

Basically, are CWs enough (perhaps combined with Mastodon's anti-viral nature) to prevent our feeds from becoming draining the way that twitter often was? If not, are there better ways to prevent it than what I settled on there?