It's nothing personal. It's just how the world is, and a lot of us hate it.

There are a whole bunch of us that don’t participate in that but you don’t see us because we aren’t popular.

never was a fan of competition i just wanna play :)

Bowling for Soup got it right. High School never ends.

That's why I like federated social media so much.

Things are organic here and on Mastodon, so it's less of a popularity contest and more about actual, quality content.

I blame you.

No one really cares what happens on social media. Just don't play.

Social media is keeping up with the Jones' turned to up to 11. At best assume you're getting the sugar coated version of events. That's the facade in present day, a social media post. Nothing on there internet is real, and now AI has made everyone a Photoshop expert.

Have you tried not giving a fuck?

If you consider this from an evolutionary standpoint...

The human race is built upon many layers. Some of those layers are animal while others are highly social. Think clans and tribes for thousands of years. If you didn't fit in that was it for you, it was the collective that made survival possible. Because of this we constantly judge and compare ourselves. It's ingrained in us through a long succession of embodiments that cared where we stood in the pecking order of the tribe and how we looked to attract a mate. That's what brought you to your existence. Old habits die hard, and you are seeing them manifest in different ways, we are walking around with the hyper-sensitive, status-obsessed, mate-seeking hardware of a hunter-gatherer, but living in a world of social media.

Want to know more? Richard Wrangham, R. Douglas Fields, and René Girard have some interesting theories on the origins, mechanics, and triggers associated with what you see in society.

I deliberately eschew attention. I make my little comments and each one exists on its own. On rare occasions where I develop any kind of meager following, I feel like I'm no longer being me and instead I have to perform me and I hate it.

It's okay to not want to play the game.

Solipsism is fun to think about. It's easy to disprove, but still.

What do you mean? Like politics and stuff? Like you need to run a super popular campaign if you aren't running unopposed kind of thing?

I'm not a huge fan of big social media, so the fediverse has been nice for that. Though lately even lemmy and Mastodon have been feeling a bit big.

You cannot lose if you don't play their game!

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