Why are trending posts on Mastodon mostly negatively politically oriented?
Why are trending posts on Mastodon mostly negatively politically oriented?
It seems anytime I try to check out Mastodon it is always some negative political view or affiliation of why X, Y & Z is bad. Is this just what most people like boosting or is it a sign of botting to push negativity over the more positive headlines?
I do understand I can switch to any Mastodon instance I want and stick to a small community, however I like keeping up with trending topics in the world. Maybe the most popular accounts in the Mastodon community likes to rise up pitchforks every minute.
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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.
I've deleted my main Masto account, I am so tired of the "if you like x then you hate y" which is just so frustrating and counterintuitive to a constructive debate. If you don't agree with their opinion it's because you are a racist Nazi that supports the genocide of trans people as well as being pro-billionnaire...
The main example of this is the whole Meta Threads federating with Activitypub, if you somehow see good things with this, it's because you support giving a platform to Nazis and transphobes, which is just so far from the truth.
The weird negative point of mastodon is it massively facilitates being stuck inside an echo chamber because you can literally defederate with any instance that might have any hint of someone who doesn't agree with you