That's my realization back on reddit after a few years since I joined around 2015. I rwalzied I just don't want any engagement when it's something even slightly heated.

Back before I joined reddit I used to hang out in manga scanlations (scanning and translating) forum sites and well, things always gets heated and I a was a vile young man. As I get older and got a job, I realize I just have no energy left to do other things if I'm constantly enraged and seeking things to get enraged about. So off my own sanity I avoid commenting unless it's just something silly or whimsical.

But even then people still sometimes do that twitter meme: "I like pancakes". "SO YOU HATE WAFFLES HUH????!!".

I usually when that happens I put down my phone / step away from my computer for some minutes and just ignore it.

Now that I'm here, I'm also being even more careful. Being a lot smaller than reddit, even compared to the period around 2016 - 2020 reddit, makes it that my name might be a bit easier to stumble upon. Not that there's stopping anybody to stalk me here or even in back on reddit. I keep a low profile and just lurk. Seems to work fine for me.