Taggart 
While everything is indeed horrible, you are not obligated to solely focus on the horror. The availability of a constant stream of bad news does not make that news valuable by itself. Paying constant attention is not "doing something." So if the information isn't actionable, filter it.
And yeah, I'm saying this for myself as much as anyone else.
Mastodon's ability to warp a post to something you want to respond to instead of what was said is unparalleled. Twitter may have created the waffles/pancakes phenomenon, but good lord have you people perfected it.
Brahms@mttaggart I appreciated the original post and moved on, but after that post I was curious and boi are you right, some of these answers really take a long stretch in "interpreting" your post ...
back in my teaching days I always mentioned (with a spoon of sarcasm) that the only requirement for enrolling in university is having the ability to read
Sven 🛌@mttaggart To be fair, as of now, your post has 250+ favs and boosts. From what I can see, there are two, maybe three, initial replies that are going in the mentioned direction.
On any other platform, I'd consider this an outstandingly good signal-to-noise ratio. 😄
@Sven It's doing well on Bluesky as well without any of this kind of strawmanning
As someone whose posts routinely do well on Fedi, trust me: nobody does grievance-posting better.
@mttaggart Personally, I notice these kinds of replies/arguments pretty much everywhere, but in way higher frequency than here, both for my and other people's posts. More hostility, too. "Quality" of them might be higher here, though, so maybe Fedinauts do them "best". 😄
As an example, I've had a post on Bluesky recently that had a whopping two likes and a single three-post reply arguing against something that was only remotely in the same context as the original post.
I wonder where these differences in perception stem from or if it's ultimately "just" about milieus.
Chilly 
@mttaggart
Fucking mood right there. I think we all need to hear it.
Fucking mood right there. I think we all need to hear it.
NosirrahSec 🏴☠️ guillotine enthusiast@mttaggart that's why I'm out punishing my body into giving me endorphins.