I’m finding that #Mastodon is helping me develop a more healthy approach to social media. The timeline doesn’t scroll forever (there’s a bottom!), & the feeds and filters mean there’s a few definite places I check for new interesting posts & then I’m done. Lots of discussion, often about hard & important topics, but no perpetual outrage that screams at me through the screen, & much less ‘both sides’ journalism that seeks to normalise the absurd & the untrue.

I log on, I share, I log off. Nice.

@annedraya I'm still chasing the dopamine but I'm hopeful that the chiller pace here will help with that.

@froodie @annedraya I wonder, is our modern society already addicted to the dopamine rush produced by "winning" toxic interactions on other social media outlets?

Certainly our "News" sources are now completely a product of this dopamine rush. "Journalists" are hired and fired by how much dopamine they can generate on the internet, not for producing good journalism.

Anyway, this is a much chiller place and hopefully we'll all be getting better every day 🙂

@UkraineWillWin @annedraya I'm pretty sure I have ADHD so I'm definitely addicted on a personal level.
Tech/news etc is definitely designed to create that rush so it's hard to retreat from that rush without retreating from being online to an extent.

@froodie @annedraya I had to look up ADHD, but my sympathies. I would guess the hyperactivity part of it would really kick in on these dopamine generating interactions. Wow, tough!

For news, I'm showing my age, but I prefer Walter Cronkite type of news. 30 minutes a day, and politics may get a 3 minute section at 20 minutes into the show. Now, its ALL politics over here in the USA. We're on the verge of WW3 and what are they talking about non-stop over here? Politics.