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For me Twitter does two things. 1. The aspect I enjoy the most is finding useful information about areas of interest from the experts. 2. The aspect that gets my attention the most is the rage-inducing posts from random people.

I think Mastodon does 1 well, and doesn't do 2 much. I don't want 2. So it's almost a perfect platform once enough of the experts have a presence there.

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Can you train yourself to ignore the rage-inducing posts? My eyes scan over them just like with banner ads, and almost entirely subconsciously.

Even if you unfollow everyone who occasionally shares outrage posts, there are still a lot of interesting people to follow. That seems to work for me.

I see the outrage posts as a kind of meta-study on human nature. Like, "oh, that's what attracts people's attention these days, noted, next.." type thing.

I think you’re right, little dopamine hits from attention or feeling self righteous. But I doesn’t seem to work on everyone, and that’s the part of tech Twitter I follow.

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