No, although as a child I told myself to remember how this part of my life felt like since many adults really don’t seem to remember it at all and raise their kids in ways that they themselves would not have liked to be raised in, mostly passing on traumas that they got from their parents.

However nowadays I can understand why that is. After you become an adult there is just so much more stuff you have to deal with that you kind of have to forget a lot from your younger years.

i actually thought about that one aswell. Though I’m not sure if it really is a tourist trap like others since it’s actually a special place.

You can always create more than one account. You could have one to look at stuff you like where you block everything else and another for looking at the rest.

Getting bombarded with negativity all the time is much more destructive than choosing when you interact with it.

You can always go to the Local or All feed and sort by various things like Active, Hot, New to see more things that you haven’t explicitly subscribed to.

For me it was the other way around. I was a kid when the only thing he was in the news for was that he had to go to court again. Only later I found out why he even was famous and that he had a lot of good music.

But that’s the good thing about the Fediverse. People can create places where they decide the rules and the Fediverse connects these places. There is no one central entity that can decide for everyone what they are allowed to do.

And honestly I wish more communities would have a “no politics” rule. There already enough places for talking about politics. Once one community starts also talking about politics the interesting stuff often gets drowned out. One example for that are some of the “Buy european” communities where most posts are now about european and american politics instead about european products and services.

The essence of the Fediverse for me is: If you don’t like anything that’s on offer, create your own space! You can make the rules.

You can always create your own community (/c/politicalthoughts maybe?) if you think there is nowhere to put something.

It’s still too broad to really answer in my opinion. One type of global collapse could be nuclear war or war in general that just erases most of humanity. In that situation you’d probably have to move somewhere where not a lot of people live today or you would die fighting in the war anyway. Another collapse could be systemical collapse. In that case you should probably rather build a community that you can rely on when shit hits the fan.

In general it’s probably good to have skills for how to get food, how to get energy to run appliances and machines as well as knowing how to deal with the environment that you live in.

What kind of collapse?

Do you mean having a separate pull down for notifications and for quick settings? With a Motorola phone and Android 15 at least you can do that but I disabled it after trying that because I didn’t like it.