Mastodon is my primary social media, and there’s a lot I dig about it. But if there’s one thing I’d like to change, it’s the way people say THIS IS A CRISIS RIGHT NOW AND IT’S THE MAIN CRISIS AND IF YOU DON’T DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT RIGHT NOW YOU’RE BAD AND WRONG!!!
Know what? It’s *your* crisis. Do what you think is right. Stop judging others for having different priorities, political or otherwise. Quit putting everything in black and white, absolute terms. It’s exhausting, and nobody can live like that.
@adhdeanasl The only thing I've found to do is to try and pick out some keywords and add a filter so I don't hear about that specific cause célèbre again. But not everyone helpfully SEO's their exhortation, and sometimes the text is in an image, or w/e, so I can only filter out so much. Yes it drives me nuts as well.
@adhdeanasl There's no way Mastodon's political culture isn't seriously harming people. Some people here must be making themselves physically ill with worry and anger.
@adhdeanasl
Agree.
I also think it's a downside of there not being an algorithm. (I'm here for the upside)
Some people like being absolutist. Some are exaggerating it to get engagement.
I've been getting very annoyed too especially when I want to read a cycling post and I get an anti fascist post in the same message.
I support your appeal to get people to tone it down from time to time and remind myself that I have to constantly refine filters based on other people's changes.