Until the most recent US presidential election I always listened to NPR* while making breakfast. The voices seemed to be coming from a world of good, kind people. They were comforting companions. I miss that.
These days I get something like the same feeling from mastodon. I wish there were a "mastodon radio" telling me about nature and math, cats and art, foibles and tall tales.
* Not uncritically. I had angry exchanges with their ombuds about the term "enhanced interrogation techniques".