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A lot of the people who have fled Twitter to Mastodon are the most... online, with strong political opinions.
Even though I usually agree with them, I find it exhausting and the opposite of fun to be bombarded with outrage politics 24/7, so I'm pretty careful about the accounts I follow.
Same. I stay away from #Explore and just keep to my feed of people I actually follow. And I make sure to unfollow those who are too stressful to hear from constantly.
I agree with almost all the of all politics all the time people who constantly post negative things, but it's too tiring to read them, especially since knowing about it does me no good and I can't do anything about it anyway. I already vote and donate as much as I can, and I live in a Blue state so anything outside of my area's just not possible for me to influence.
I've found it's better just to ignore it and focus on positive things that make my life better.
It's the worst part of social media, in my opinion. If you're ingesting that stuff 24/7, you'd think the world was ending every week.
We aren't built to process that volume of information without it warping our perception.
It's why I've gone back to reading an old school newspaper. The format naturally limits the amount of bad news they can fit in a day, and it has regular sections on art, culture, philosophy, nature etc.