One way to alleviate that is to defriend or unfollow (hide from news feed) those people who are engaging in one-upmanship, if you're not interested in that. If

One way to alleviate that is to defriend or unfollow (hide from news feed) those people who are engaging in one-upmanship, if you're not interested in that. If you want to only passively see what people are up to, this is a good way to do that without being audience to virtue-signalling. I've found that this is a good habit to work on for in-person relationships as well. Curate your company!