a nice thing about Cohost is that it hasn't convinced everyone that their role on Earth is to be the Some Schmuck News Network, offering up-to-the-minute updates and opinions on every matter of global import
"Your silence on the matter speaks volumes" culture when the volumes consist mostly of a description of how I'm actually not a political reporter but a nurse in Fucklesburg, Massachusetts and therefore mostly
qualified to commentate on the Fuckle Valley regional healthcare system
this honestly has been the biggest healthiest mindset change for me when it comes to social media an why cohost has been so much better. there are things i am equipped to write about but for everything else i am simply not the best person for it and it's not actually that important that I perform "caring" as much as possible through relaying every random post I see minute by minute on current events lest people think I don't care, which would be the worst thing really, people thinking an incorrect thing about me due to a lack of information or insight into my inner world. That's what's really important about this war or natural disaster, that everyone needs to know that I'm one of the good ones who cares about it. And everyone else who isn't acting like this is clearly some uneducated or uncaring sheep.
there was a stretch of time where the way i used it was unhealthy. like, i was bugfuck paranoid that people were thinking i was some sort of callous monster or something because i didn't reblog every single tragedy that came up on my dash, big or small, and i saw others who DID. hence why i switched over to masto, hence why i'm active here, hence why seeing people post like that on Bluesky during my daily social media maintenance checkup on there just makes me depressed
