Seeing a lot of complaints about Mastodon that are making me realize that not only are people using it in different ways than I am, I should probably be culling my follow list quite a bit to really use this space to connect with people, rather than to expose myself to "news" and advocacy.
It's so tempting to let a space become Twitter again by fooling myself that in chasing a diverse foillow list I'm educating myself.
@danlyke btw, I RT jokes and Ukraine related stuff. I would rather my followers read both (jokes are fun and and uplifting, a war in the middle of Europe is very important and has to be stopped with the defeat of the aggressor), but if people are not into it, there's an amazing option "hide boosts"!
@jonn yep. And Mastodon may not have all of the nuance of Gnus killfiles, Claws filters, or .procmailrc, but it does have some filtering, and it's a good reminder to use those.
This is really more about me trying to find the right balance in following those who see themselves as social justice advocates. I'm trying to educate myself, and sympathetic that my privilege warps my perceptions, but I'm realizing I need to take a step back from aspects of that. Change the things I can and all that.
@danlyke I feel you. I feel like I'm very strongly pro-social justice (because it's simply logical and significantly lacking). But I'll admit that I sometimes mute people for N days (which is also a feature here) when I'm in the mood of connecting with people more than being sad about stuff. We all need to recuperate and stay positive in presence of an overwhelming set of huge problems we can't fix ourselves.
What I like about educating myself on these subjects though is that I, as a business owner, want to keep myself in check and provide my employees ways to de facto or de jure even (if they care enough) to unionise. I try my very best to install people whose job it is to geniuenly work in their interests without bullshit inside my companies and, in early stages, be that person myself. This is an example where learning about overarching thing I can't fix makes me think and apply best practices to things I can construct well by design.
