People, seriously, if you keep on talking about things such as US politics or other doom and gloom that does nothing except damage our mental health (no boosting outrageous things to death does nothing positive) without using appropriate keywords and hashtags (including people real names) I will have to unfollow you or even mute you, regardless of past relationships.
Spreading all the things that depresses us does nothing but damage our mental health a little more every day. This is not militantism (you need to get off your couch to do militantism, you don't do that with a phone or a keyboard) this is not raising awareness (our awareness is raised alright) this is just increasing negativity everywhere (in a sense you're playing in their hands).
Also remember that any publicity is good publicity.
#fediverse #mastodon
@DavidBHimself I'd even take this a step farther and say that such tagging is really required around here because it's the primary way this platform empowers users to craft their own experiences, whether for understandable reasons related to mental health or simply everyday usage of a platform that we're all trying to get more value out of.
It's just a good habit because it empowers each other, whether a topic might be fraught or not.
Folks, use those hashtags. Especially when the topic might be triggering, but also just in general, because every user of this platform gains from it.
