Pros of Mastodon after 9 days:

• rebuilding my follow list got me out of whatever morass I was in on Twitter

• compared to Twitter, there's *way* higher engagement with people overall

• almost everyone's been chill

• there's a learning curve and the capability to build, which is more interesting than numb consumption

• the #brands have yet to arrive

@couts The admins of various instances, or so I'm told, have a big list of toxic instances to which they tend not to federate their own instances. That really helps keep the signal-to-noise ratio at a sane level.
@mos_8502 @couts dumb question but are stars the same thing as likes? I see almost no stars on any post so I am like hmmmm maybe I should t star so many 😅😅😅😅😅😅