after a few weeks on mastodon without much thought about twitter i’ve noticed a distinct change in my own mood.
i think twitter force-feeding us rage inducing tweets every day was having more of an impact on my psyche than i care to admit.
i didn’t follow much politics and always used Twitteriffic — but the people i followed retweeted their algorithmic rage all day every day.
i really feel like i owe someone a thank you for giving me this piece of my life back that’s been missing for years.
> the people i followed retweeted their algorithmic rage all day every day.
I wonder how we can fix that for good. CWs are part of the puzzle perhaps, but people use them less and less and even argue that people “need to be informed”.
@chucker people need to hear bad news too.
but i don’t need to hear only the worst news all day every day from all my friends.
i find a few on mastodon talk about awful things a bit and then moves on to things that are more tangible in their life like their work and their family.
it doesn’t seem to artificially keep circling back to the most rage-inducing news over and over like it did on twitter.
it feels much healthier. at least to me.
>people need to hear bad news too.
They do — but sometimes, all I wanna do is sit by the lake and watch the ducks. (Also gives me energy to participate in the next political fight.)
>people need to hear bad news too.
Yeah. Seems much better so far. :-)
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