One thing I appreciate about Mastodon is that if I slip into a bad habit of scrolling through the feed too much in one day, I start seeing old posts that I've already seen, and then I realize that I'm doing a bad habit, and that helps me stop checking the site too often.

On other platforms they would do anything to prevent that moment of self-reflection from occurring.

@andrewrk It's what sends me back to my book or playing with the dogs. Like "Oh, I guess I'm caught up."