[lmm]

"None of our platforms are built to deal with it" is a false equivalence. The same social factors exist on every platform, but somehow you don't get the same outrage-storms on other platforms, only Twitter and Tumblr.

I don't suggest people who find themselves offended quit the Internet. But I do suggest that they, and everyone else, quit Twitter. You'll find you're much happier for it.

[crystalmeph]

It probably extends beyond Twitter and Tumblr, but they certainly seem to be the first ones anyone thinks about when you talk about emotional echo chambers.

Given that, your advice does make some sense. If the problem is worse on certain platforms, people should be asking themselves if staying on those platforms is worth the price they pay. Of course this entails a trade-off - this article was right that there are no easy solutions to the problem.

Full disclosure - this is the only active account I have on anything remotely "social," although I do browse some of the other things without logging in, so I'm talking as something like an outside observer with a personal bias against the whole medium, precisely because I find the emotional echo-chamber off-putting and distracting.