Every time I look at reddit or twitter they’re designed to be filled with the most vile or annoying posts imaginable to keep you scrolling and this place just… doesn’t have that. It’s relieving to not be inherently angry just scrolling through new posts
Sites like twitter, FB, reddit, youtube, for whatever reason always push the most rage-inducing content to their front pages. I guess it helps with “engagement”, and they see it as a positive that people spend more time on their sites… regardless of the psychological consequences of having users angry.
Twitter especially, could just ruin my whole day, with the content it pushes to everyone’s feeds. They really don’t care about our psychological well-being, at all. Standard short-term capitalist thinking.
I could go to Twitter for 5 minutes and in that 5 minutes be angry, excited, anxious, hopeful, and depressed. It was way way waaaayyy too much. I had to leave. That’s how I noticed it was time to think about leaving Reddit, I left it feeling worse than when I started browsing.