👩🦯The Blind FraggleSaying it again for whoever needs to hear it. Just because the various horrors in the world don't consume 98% of a person's social media posts, just because they don't stew in it every day, just because they look for and acknowledge good things in their life and the world around them, doesn't mean they are uninformed or don't care. I tried to say more, but then realized I really don't need to.
Boosting this just because I get a kick out of seeing older posts show up in my notifications. Just to clarify, someone else favorited it, and that's how it wound up in my notifications. I didn't search it out myself just to get more notifications, lol.
Fanfalla 
@Fragglemuppet This!!!
Rosamundi@Fragglemuppet @virtuosew I just read this this morning:
" Joy is callous. All evidence of it is a reminder that someone somewhere is suffering, which many someones always are, so joy should be withdrawn, and anyway it’s neoliberal. There can be no good things until there are no bad things at all, which is why good things are bad."
https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-how-to-comment-on-social-media/
Rachel Wright
Len@Fragglemuppet I was honestly thinking of posting something about how burned out I am, that the truth doesn't actually seem to matter and everything seems to suck. But why bother to post it?
Why should I burden the readers of my posts (all 10? of them lol) with more shit to deal with? It doesn't matter what my opinion is on <weighty topic here>. I can't change matters that are important to me purely in proportion to how much they consume me emotionally. And a clever snarky post or satire doesn't actually do a damn thing to effect change. It doesn't make a whit of difference. Besides the fact that most of the time out here we're preaching to the choir.
So I don't read the news any more. There's nothing I can do by reading it except for suffer. You know, I got called "ammoral" for that? For being fed up with nothing but hearing about bad things *with no guidance on how I can make the bad thing better*?
So I vote left. I give money to charity. I joined my union. I follow as many of the modern mitzvot as I can - only consuming ethically sourced, free range food, source my electricity from a vendor that says it's renewable. Don't own a car. Give a great deal of money to homeless people when I pass, when I have money in my wallet (mostly cashless these days). I'm lucky enough to make more money than I need, so I try to send it to where it will do good.
I'm a drop in the ocean. I'm doing my part, and that's literally all I can do. I can't take on the mental strain of caring about anything else. I *resent* social media posts of some new horror, some new demand on my reserves of mental resilience, demanding that I care about some other new thing. And they never say what the reader can do to help. Never. And half the time it's nothing more than semi-accurate snark.
A pithy statement solves nothing. Neither does martyring one's mental health. (Nor, I'm coming to learn, does screaming at evildoers, no matter how much you're correct).
...sorry. That's a lot, but I'm drunk and your post is relevant and it's been weighing on my mind for a while.
But yeah. For the most part I only toot jokes and funny stuff, and (I hope) amusingly worded complaints about stuff that really doesn't matter. Because the only change that would result from me making pithy statements about weighty matters is to burden the reader with more trauma.
David ConradI feel much the same way. And I don't think you should be called "ammoral" for it.
For one thing, it's spelled "amoral"... 😅
From Robin with Love@Fragglemuppet Thank you for saying this. I am aware of all, but don’t need to comment on or repost all. Plus, it’s also preaching to the choir. Better to share positivity in this scary old world right now, imo.
@firefly Basically many of them are yelling at us for not single-handedly changing the world. As if doomposting will do that, anyway.
Dark Sheep Arts Has MovedFucking this. Absolutely.
Lyle Solla-Yates@Fragglemuppet finding joy in hard times is necessary. We can’t run on hurt.
Miguel Tavares@Fragglemuppet I was thinking about this the other day. Sometimes I wish public figures would use their notoriety to address some of the world’s problems. On the other hand, we all know the effects of doom scrolling.
So maybe there’s a balance — somewhere between Pinker’s willfully alienated optimism and full-time anxiety-inducing activism.
eyrea 🇨🇦@Fragglemuppet This.
Something I had to learn the hard way: if all you do is focus on the horrors, that's all you see. It's Red Car Theory, but because it's about political issues, you start to make assumptions about other people, as you said.
Bell-Gravestone-Bomb@Fragglemuppet I'm a fan of Kurt Vonnegut's 'If this isn't nice, what is?' so each in this regard.
RowinSpeez@Fragglemuppet also, just because a person gets passionate and posts about politics doesn’t mean it consumes their life. Pretty much every facet of life involves other people, from work to any club or platform. People have other interests and are more than their outspoken values.
CB Uí Foghlú@Fragglemuppet Exactly this. I'm burnt out from my own issues (homeless, broke, living in a van) and the constant onslaught of news, politics, war, and all the other bad stuff tends to tip me over the edge. It was easier on mastodon at 1st because ppl used content warnings for headlines & stories with bad stuff going on & it gave me a chance to expand them when I was more mentally able. Now content warnings seem a thing of the past & it has become a doomscrolling place like twitter was.
Zen 
@Fragglemuppet Very true!
ahimsa@Fragglemuppet
So true! There are many issues that touch me deeply that I don't post about. If I can't add something to the discussion then I probably won't post about it.
So true! There are many issues that touch me deeply that I don't post about. If I can't add something to the discussion then I probably won't post about it.
@ahimsa_pdx And though it may seem rather shallow now compared to other things, I used to say on Twitter years ago when things started to get bad that my way of helping was to give people a reason to smile, that being positive was valuable.
@Fragglemuppet Makes sense to me! And I do enjoy your posts ❤️
@ahimsa_pdx Aw, thanks!
Sarah E Bourne@Fragglemuppet The more concerned I am, the more likely I am to post about something nice or pretty or funny. We have to remember what we're fighting for!
sezduck@Fragglemuppet @johnelalamo Well said!!
It’s also worth mentioning that it’s generally not profitable for news organizations to report good news, so it’s easy to assume that *everything* is bad. Here are some good-news sources to combat that:
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org
https://reasonstobecheerful.world
https://www.positive.news
https://www.optimistdaily.com
David Zaslavsky
I don't think we were made for this
David 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️NB they/them@Fragglemuppet It’s surreal flipping from tragedy to the things that amuse me but if I didn’t I would spiral down a bottomless pit of despair.
SunnJax 🌷🏳️🌈 
@Fragglemuppet Thank you. This is really helpful to me right now.
Ampelios@Fragglemuppet In fact the worse the outside world gets, the more I need to withdraw into a fictional one for my own physical safety.
Not even exaggerating. Depression is a chronic condition that, if not managed carefully, can be terminal.
Of COURSE I care. Does my caring count more if I am dead? If not, then back off of my escapism, thank you.
It has taken a lifetime to know my limits.
Xantastic@Fragglemuppet I could focus all my attention on doomscrolling, but then I'd be depressed. I care about what's going on in the world, but I cannot, overload myself with it, it hurts.