Princess Emily
[mental health] I need to like.... stop browsing xwitter. or at least stop looking at terrible news shit on it.
You're Quinner
it does seem to do a lot of damage to you
Princess Emily
it's not even the news itself really
Princess Emily
like the fucked up shit Israel is doing or whatever political bullshit is popping up is BAD but it's news and important and not the worst brunt of it
Princess Emily
what kills me is when I click on any one of them
Rama
Is it that the worst people in the world pay a monthly subscription to get the top comments on every post
Princess Emily
and see literally dozens of people all loudly agreeing with the horrible shit
Princess Emily
yes
Rama
Yeah
Princess Emily
dozens, hundreds sometimes,
Princess Emily
of just the most horrible people in the world going "YEAH KILL THOSE KIDS" or whatever
oh i'm scary
this is also why doomscrolling is bad for me
oh i'm scary
I think, by which I mean in my healthier moments I choose to believe
oh i'm scary
that Twitter gives a very severely exaggerated impression of how fundamentally evil the average person is
oh i'm scary
both because as Rama says it explicitly amplifies evil people by design
oh i'm scary
and also like. I just think The Average Person isn't arguing on twitter
AzureChrysanthemum
The important thing to remember is there are not actually that many people at all on Twitter
oh i'm scary
these people are too-online freaks
oh i'm scary
(derogatory)
oh i'm scary
unlike us, the cool too-online freaks
AzureChrysanthemum
It's basically a trap for a certain kind of person
AzureChrysanthemum
That person being, usually, folks who are some combination of ADHD or Autistic
AzureChrysanthemum
Also bots
AzureChrysanthemum
Just so many fucking bots
moontouched
yeah a ton of them are just bots
moontouched
twitter isn't representative of humanity it's representative of uh, mostly bots by volume and a minority of extremely loud chuds
AzureChrysanthemum
It also amplifies being awful, and a lot of people, even those I agree with, are just like, the worst
AzureChrysanthemum
I've been "enjoying" watching the TTRPG blow up a small PoC-oriented convention and helping my org that usually goes to said convention exit as gracefully as we can while thanking god I hadn't bought my plane tickets yet
AzureChrysanthemum
*TTRPG community I should say
moontouched
oh no
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i swear by this extension - you can tweak exactly what you see on twitter and that has helped it still be usable for me
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