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.
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"