I’m currently on my second life in Mastodon. I deleted my omg.lol account after a long period of having 30-day self-destructing toots anyhow, then sort of pulled myself together and reinstated it. I turned off the self-destructing part, too.
But part of the reason for getting rid of almost all my social accounts was frustration over seeing things go by and rinsing/repeating the whole “someone is wrong on the internet” cycle, except I’m way too retiring to do anything other than delete the post or turn it into a homeopathically vague subtoot. “If a tree falls on Jupiter and nobody is around to hear it” levels of vague.
But having picked up and stuck to an atomic writing practice over the past few weeks, I have taken to just letting myself feel my first reaction and commit it to a note that I might drop a few tags into if I have recently written notes about similar things, and I then I keep going with whatever I was up to. The impulse to “say” something is honored, I waste no time crafting it down to a mild subtoot, and it’s actually better for later thinking, because it’s way easier to process a very brief, unfiltered observation than it is to process an overcooked one. The atomic note is just a hunk of raw ore for later.
One piece of advice I gave myself this time around was to not think about how all the notes would hang together, but to just write, tag a little, and periodically link back to the top of a topical tree or nearby note, not in a rigid folgezettel kind of way, but in a “this is part of a cluster” kind of way. I will not have a very awe inspiring graph view. That’s fine. This is more of a mental health exercise than a “walk in the footsteps of Luhmann” exercise.