It seems anytime I try to check out Mastodon it is always some negative political view or affiliation of why X, Y & Z is bad. Is this just what most people like boosting or is it a sign of botting to push negativity over the more positive headlines?

I do understand I can switch to any Mastodon instance I want and stick to a small community, however I like keeping up with trending topics in the world. Maybe the most popular accounts in the Mastodon community likes to rise up pitchforks every minute.

  • @ttmrichter@lemmy.world
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    91 year ago

    People have been trained by corporatist ad-click-driven "angagement"1-oriented antisocial media that all online communication is rage-fuelled.

    No, wait. This doesn’t explain BITNET, FidoNet, USENET, etc. which predate such antisocial media by decades…

    New theory: people online tend toward being assholes because they’re not in imminent danger of taking a punch to the nose for it.


    1 “angagement”: a portmanteau of “anger” and “engagement”