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@maloki I just followed your advice from a few days go about unfollowing/ muting/ blocking people if seeing them on a social media feed produces anxiety. It's really good advice. Thanks for posting it :)

@strypey @maloki I don't like it. It encourages unthinking disconnection and ostracism.

Strypey (was at Quitter.se) @strypey

@kara @maloki that's a legitimate concern, but unfollowing peope I feel anxious around does achieve three things. 1) reduce avoidable anxiety associated with being here. 2) reduces the number of posts here that are anxious people lashing out in self-defence. 3) avoids the feeding of trolls, both the kind (!) , and the kind (! and !)