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Written by Kev Quirk on 2025-02-02 at 17:12

Last Friday I posted about taking a break from Mastodon (https://kevquirk.com/notes/20250124-0804) and since then I've checked Masto maybe 3 time and only really looked at my notifications.

It's actually been very pleasant. No politics, no moaning, no negativity, and no drama. I checked the timeline just now and all 4 of those things came flooding in.

Think I'm going to continue just checking my notifications. It's nice.

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Written by Vít Skalický :fedora: on 2025-02-02 at 17:17

@kev I was getting sick of politics, so I unfollowed everyone who talks about it more than very rarely. Problem solved

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Written by Kev Quirk on 2025-02-02 at 17:23

@vitSkalicky I've actually just wiped out a load of the people I follow too. Might have a second round cull in a few days.

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Written by shadowwwind on 2025-02-02 at 20:12

@kev @vitSkalicky disabling boosts from people is also pretty good

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Written by FunnyLookinHat on 2025-02-02 at 17:18

@kev glad the break is doing you well! I'm also glad your posts still make it on here from your site :-)

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Written by Jon on 2025-02-02 at 18:04

@kev I recently posted a similar thing here and on my blog. Taking breaks is ok.

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Written by Lee Perry on 2025-02-02 at 19:06

@kev I mainly use my timeline to find interesting and shiny things / people to transfer into my feed reader (unread). I do most of my reading there.

I cleansed out most of the politics and attention stuff when I set my own instance up - I'm not paying to store that stuff!

Hope you are good...

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Written by Roelant (EN) on 2025-02-02 at 20:28

@kev I heavily filter those subjects. It amounts to the same, sort of. 😋

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Written by Vijay Prema on 2025-02-02 at 22:25

@kev I have a "low-noise" list which contains accounts that do not engage in politics or use sensational language. Monks, philosophers (those that want peace and improving ones life, not about figuring out what is "right"), artists etc.

Then I have a browser bar shortcut directly to that list and I avoid my home instance URL directly. It would be nice if I could make my low-noise list the my default Home, then I don't need the shortcut.

I also filter posts with sensational words e.g. N*zi.

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Written by Vijay Prema on 2025-02-02 at 22:29

@kev Then if I want to take a peek at the wider world... Ill look at my real home feed once or twice a week. It still blocks sensationalist keywords, but its amazing what politics still get through. At least its usually the milder version of it.

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Written by AreWeThereYet on 2025-02-02 at 23:04

@kev I've tried bazzillions of social networks and I'm absolutely sick about how politics and general hatred dominate the landscape. Fosstodon is (or at least seems to be) the only place free from this plague, for which I'm eternally grateful to admins and moderators. Well done, gentlemen.

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