So here's what I've learned.
Mastodon isn't Twitter.
And that's by design.
You've grown used to things designed to give you that anger rush.
Mastodon is very deliberately built to avoid that.
The temptation is to replicate your Twitter experience.
Picking arguments, amplifying trolls.
Please don't.
This isn't your house, people here put time into building it.
Content warnings, ALT tags.
Don't turn it into a replica of the mess you just left.
If you miss the fights, the birdsite is still there.

@faduda I'm testing out Mastodon and hoping it could be a new internet "home", and it would be *really* lovely to be able to start again without some of the bad habits of Twitter.

Twitter has been my go-to for community, and I've learned so much from people there, but there's definitely stuff that was already *not* functioning or sustainable prior to Musk getting his hands on it.

@SarahAnneDipity The birdsite was toxic before Musk. He just accelerated it so fast that the frogs finally started to notice the water was boiling and jumped out.