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Social media can feel like a comparison trap, says study author Helen Thai

Some say it has become more frustrating as the price of items has skyrocketed due to inflation

Twitter has had real “Closing Time” vibes over the last two weeks: You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.

Mastodon is open-source software, meaning anyone so inclined could set up a server to host users and connect to other servers, making for a decentralized network.

But they are are adapting: joining protests at city council and school board meetings against vaccine and mask mandates and over how public schools teach kids about race.

Facebook’s rank-and-file employees warned their leaders about the company’s effects on society and politics in the U.S. — and its inability to effectively moderate content in other countries magnified those dangers.

By the time Facebook banned the first Stop the Steal group on Nov. 5, the group had already mushroomed to more than 360,000 members.