@TechConnectify I'm a very small account and don't face many of the same issues I know you do, but I never understood why people don't just curate their own feed as you expressed. Even on the other platforms, it wasn't exactly hard to make a feed you like.

Some people are just out there looking for a fight, and I don't get it. Even when folks show up on my timeline with positions I disagree with, I shrug my shoulders and keep scrolling or go listen to music or read a book, or something. Masto isn't my life. No one should feel the need to disagree vehemently with someone unless they're productive about it.

Open discussion is a good thing, but picking fights isn't. An issue with Mastodon is that it wasn't prepared for toxicity and has very few means of avoiding it. The noble, albeit naïve assumption was that everyone could get along, and when communities were smaller and more closed, that made sense, but with post-Twitter growth, it can only get worse.