I'm beginning to think a lot of people on Twitter who THINK they're fighting for progressive causes are really more interested in griping at alt-right trolls. Every time I visit Twitter, Kevin Sorbo, Andrew Tate, Kyle Rittenhouse or Trump is trending for something they posted. WHO CARES? All the attention they get from the left is precisely what they crave (and it only helps Musk's Twitter succeed.) Twitter is a place for people addicted to outrage. I like Mastodon better.
@augieray
I don't think Mastodon differs in this respect, actually. In fact when I started following people it was far worse than Twitter had ever been. Every post was raging at Elon Musk, or social justice issues. I unfollowed a bunch of people and I'm trying to focus on more centrist or 'topic oriented' posters. It seems to have gotten better over time. I think you might be on a good server too.
@leo
@darryl @leo Well, I do my fair share of raging about Elon Musk. My point is that raging ABOUT him is wildly different from raging AT him on Twitter. By engaging with the trolls, people only end up promoting them. Every gripe reply tells the algorithm the tweet should be seen by more people. On Mastodon, there is no algorithm. So, yes, who you follow matters, but it's still very different in the fediverse by design.