The best part for me of being on mastodon as opposed to other social media platforms is that here I don't get fascist thoughts injected straight into my eyeballs dozens of times a day. That's really what made me stick around initially, that I could have social media without feeling angry all the time
@eniko using other social media started feeling like it was to see how much people hate me but mastodon has remained about seeing what cool people are up to. I can't escape that hatred in other areas of life but at least now I don't see it when I'm just wanting to look at cool tech people and possums.
@maria wanting to see a cute possum but getting a hateful bigot instead is the quintessential twitter experience