I *do* love Mastodon and have found a home here, but I just saw an example of a pet peeve on this particular social media:
Person 1 states an opinion
Person 2 disagrees with this opinion
Person 1 accuses person 2 of being “aggressive.”
There was no aggression; only disagreement. I see that a lot here: hypersensitivity. If we want a grownup social media, we have to be grownups.
Consumer social media lives and dies on clickbait. Reactions are clicks and clicks are $$$. I think the last decade of social media induced cultural engineering has created a society full of vapid, self-centered reactionaries.
@SpinozasHeresy @adhdeanasl in all honesty, I’m not sure humanity throughout all of its existence has been anything but collectively vapid, self-centered reactionaries. We just have the tools to see it at a greater scale.
These qualities have always been abused by those in power to whatever scale they can muster.
Individuals and small groups can be exceptions, but humanity is pretty shitty as a whole.
yeah, agreed. Are you sure you’re not “owlsley”chemist😏
@SpinozasHeresy @adhdeanasl I aspire to be as connected and impactful as owlsley 👅▫️🫨