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If i compare to fb/twitter mstodon is better. However, mastodon has a lot of "instagram like" people posting on it and i don't like or feel comfortable with that aspect. I like text based and less image based. I don't like seeing people posting how they look.
Oh, yeah I feel you. Those sites are insecurity generators because people only post when they're at their best. They can foster creepy parasocial relationships too.
Yeah, i've noticed they look the best always. It's not authentic, though some will type the truth of how they feel. I don't see it in photos very much on socials, outside of dating apps.
The word "insecurity" is strange to me. i see it thrown around a bit, yet find it doesn't make sense, when i think of what it means. "free from harm" or "afforded safety". Seeing others, doesn't cause me harm or loss of safety, just a sort of " body image issue", which makes more since. when i think of security, i think of a military base or defenses against imperialism etc, when i think of security. Hope that makes sense.
I get what you mean, sometimes words don't make sense to me either. According to etymonline the word secure comes from Latin securus. se- meaning "free from" and cura meaning "care." It originally meant "without care or fear, quiet, easy" or "careless, reckless, overconfident."
So I guess we can understand "insecure" as meaning "fearful, disquiet, uneasy." Or maybe "cares too much, underconfident."