This is why I'm considering phasing out casual use of social media. The spaces are crawling with trolls who will accuse me of bad faith if I insist to keep communicating across difficult but surmountable lines of difference - and then conversely, to gaslight me that I'm asking too much when I call people on their shit when they're across the lines I cannot surmount - but across which I must communicate for the sake of, like, survival (*cough* ECOCIDE *cough* GENOCIDE *cough*).

I'm aware that this situation was partly generated by algorithms on commercial sites that boosted outrage for clicks - I never really liked e.g. Facebook and I've been dormant there for almost 10 years, but I had some actually constructive conversations there prior to ~2012 that I cannot seem to have anymore.

Masto seems better - I don't have much experience - but I do like to keep my timeline diverse in ideology & interests, and it looks like a lot of people whose bad behavior thrived on commercial social media have crossed over too.

I wonder if I'll need to wait until they all suspend me 😂
QT: https://mstdn.social/@lowqualityfacts/111925972422037516