jsonbeckerMastodon would be better if instance discovery and migration were better, and we actually had many distinct smaller communities versus everyone being like me and jumping on a big one that's easy to find and generalized.
I have essentially no experiences here that motivate me to log in and participate more actively, and this is almost entirely due to the fact that this is not the right instance for me.
Wes@jsonbecker I get that. It took me a while find a flow here. But also, the fact that interaction is slower and more explicitly asynchronous has done wonders for me personally. I used to doomscroll for hours on twitter. Now I actually look when I'm having an interaction with a human person on the other end, not just ingesting content. I chose a geographic instance jawns.club for the Philly area, because, in theory, I could meet these people irl and foster "local" community.
@numtot_thot I get that places like Micro.blog— which in a way acts as a small instance that proves my point.