@adhdeanasl @liztai I very much agree, although unfortunately the same attitude seems to have taken over most social platforms

@adhdeanasl I've had enough personal crises without adopting those of others. Yes, it's exhausting. Similarly, I've stopped reading all those damned outrage-of-the-day blogs.

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Preach.

@adhdeanasl there’s just.so.many.crises.

@adhdeanasl Amen.

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I feel like it's everywhere, just somewhat easier to ignore other places when they're feeding you nonsense to fill up your time.

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Well said!

@adhdeanasl Kinda hard to ignore crises when your own safety is at stake. But I'm guessing you know nothing about what that feels like.

@adhdeanasl @lisamelton Agreed. Individual social media “activism” is pointless compared to the real thing and whinging about friends’ perceived inaction is just another way of wishing someone else would do the work.

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I well understand the fatigue and desire to get a break from all the shitty stuff going on in the world, but I don't think it's anyone's responsibility but yours to curate your feed to tone down what you see.
If you are interested, may I suggest you build a few lists populated with accounts that will meet your desire for fun or silly or intellectually stimulating or the arts or whatever you like.
That way anytime you need an uplift fix, you can be confident of getting what you need.

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Well, there are problems that can't be seen as consumer choice, like the polycrisis, or human rights. Everyone SHOULD commit to at least seeing these as important.

Then there's things that aren't consumer choice, but where binary thinking is just making things worse (the lgbt+ has the '+' due to people repeatedly collapsing the choices past sense).

Beneath that there's the local politics, or things that can be seen as consumerism.

@adhdeanasl LOL you would not enjoy Bluesky at all.

@adhdeanasl The most annoying thing is "all caps". There are plenty of ways to emphasize but for some reason **all caps** get used all the time, it make things harder to read. I can't focus on what they are actually saying. This is text, screaming is unnecessary and it never feels like that, instead it just feels annoying.

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It’s a global world. We are all dependent on each other for some things.
Maybe there is a top priority that we should all pull together on.

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Not happening in my bubble too often. Maybe try switching server.
@anderspuck

@adhdeanasl "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man." - The Dude

;-)

@adhdeanasl Thanks for being a voice of reason. So many crises, but Mastodon is fixing only one :)

@adhdeanasl this is clearly your crisis? 🤔

@adhdeanasl This is an unprecedented total crisis of opinions. If we don’t stop judging, mankind will be exhausted forever…

@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.

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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.