[Damogran6]

I'm on Twitter mostly out of morbid curiosity....and I've noticed since Elno took over that: -The unending doomscroll is now about 6 inches long -There are times where it's ad | ad | ad | content | ad | content -IF you look at what IS there and categorize the entries as positive (+) or negative (-) it looks like: - - - - - + - - + - -

It's much easier to see the patterns now.

I heavily curated FAcebook to get rid of any hint of politics. At the worst of the midterms, there was nothing of note there.

Mastodon is a blast of fresh air, I really like the vibe and people...and it's not big enough (on my instance) to overwhelm with content, which makes it easy to disengage.

So, am I using social media? Yeah. But it's not as poisonous when you're AWARE of the poison, and it makes it really easy to disengage.

We're not evolved to deal with it, but it IS learnable. Much like we weren't evolved to deal with pretty much ANYTHING in this modern age...yet here we are.