That is unironically exactly what I want from social media.

I want the option to engage with the substance of new developments in the world, technology, etc. without the drama. I don't want to be drawn into the drama of strangers (who could, for all I know, just be bots or ragebaiting AIs).

If I want drama, there's plenty of it on TV, or I could talk to my friends about what is going on with people I actually know.

The anti-pattern, in my mind, is logging on to engage with substantive content and to be inadvertently drawn into flamewars with strangers.