I hate when people post political stuff on Fedi, because it makes me mentally unstable. I wish Sharkey had an option to hide posts from view and in the process mute the authors, and that tagging doomposts was mandatory. For my own mental health I deliberately live under a rock, and I hate that people are mass-sharing bad news on Fedi. It didn't used to be that way in 2022. God, what is wrong with people who don't tag political or other doomposts. It takes a fucking day to wash that shit out of my mind. Not only spoiler it, but hashtag it so I can block the entire tag. Otherwise I may potentially start mass-blocking users who post or boost such posts, and I really do not want to have to do that. I don't need to see that shit. #fediblock#nopoliticstoday#tagyourspoilers#dontdoompost#nodepression#stfuabouttwitter#keepitlight#mentalhealthmatters
@stgiga I feel you so much on this. It can be very hard-going. I've been affected by it in recent months, to the point I've withdrawn slightly simply to safeguard my mental health. You simply can't block everything, and so many folks don't use nice-n-easy keywords for stuff you've already muted...it gets too much sometimes.
I try and focus on more positive things now because I don't want to be yet another voice adding to the daily torrent of horror and depression. Don't always succeed (have just posted a WTF reaction to something Microsoft have done) but I feel it's important that I shine light whenever I can so that for other folks here it's not all doom-scroll.
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