To add to this, I hopped to escape the politics on mastodon (more akin to 2000s style IRCs or forums) but visiting after a few months (mas.to instance) it seems

To add to this, I hopped to escape the politics on mastodon (more akin to 2000s style IRCs or forums) but visiting after a few months (mas.to instance) it seems even more polarizing than twitter. 8/10 posts on the explore tab are a "political dunk." Exhausting. That's why I use HN more than anything else these days, lol.