hannah onlineSometimes I see posts on here like “mastodon is too serious and businesslike, it needs more selfies and shitposts” and I’m like are we even using the same website but then I remember we very literally are not
SJ@prehensile Same. Someone complained to me the other day that Mastodon was too right wing and libertarian and I was very confused.
Andy 
@hierofalco @prehensile Mastodon is gay AF and I won't be persuaded otherwise.
Owlor 
@prehensile I also think that for all intents and purposes, mastodon today is just a completly different thing than it was just a couple of months ago.
It's not evenly distributed because like you said, literally not the same website, but the business and scholarly side of Mastodon kinda just exploded overnight and I've become very aware that if I post a furry with her tits out, some respected academic at an institute in Denmark or something is gonna see it.
sarah tonin 
@Owlor @prehensile based. post more.
@Owlor yeah the full name + headshot avatar contingent is definitely a lot stronger now. My plan to continue being a little rat weirdo and posting as if nothing has changed
@prehensile My plan is and always has been "be a little creature"
Alicealysia@Owlor @prehensile the good news is, serious academics are exactly the kinda people who wanna see furries with their boobs out
Chani 
@alicealysia @Owlor @prehensile so long as there's a CW it's all good, my timeline will continue to have zero surprise boobs :)
level 5 troon hazard@Owlor @prehensile making stuffy academics look at furry porn as praxis
Joan of Cat (she/her) 😼Followed you for more furries with their tits out. Everyone should be so lucky as to break up the monotony of scholarly articles with boobs.
modulux@prehensile I love the mix of this is a very very serious algebraic topology thing, also death to capitalism, by the way this is a realtime kernel driver for a teledildonic device, oh and I’m a cat meow meow.
We can all do with a reminder that we all contain multitudes, and the fedi certainly does that.
timorl@modulux The crucial thing being that you only have to follow one account for all that, if you pick carefully enough. :> @prehensile
Rick Osborne@prehensile It's interesting to think that we've basically gone back to the old Bulletin Board days, where the company you keep is once again more a reflection of you, than of society at large. We haven't had that for a while, it feels.
Either that, or suddenly the world has become overrun by sapphic romance authors, trans tech nerds, and board gamers.
Which, I mean, I am absolutely here for.
Julia RezChuck in 'occasional DJ and petrolhead' and that sounds like a fine plan to me.
Leviathan (Odette)@prehensile I probably need to make an account on a general instance too because here it's just lots of porn.
Cecelia Joie 💙💙
Mark Armstrong@prehensile it’s clearly all about the Irish.
Alexander Olofsson | Ananace@prehensile To be fair, lots of people are complaining that email is far too serious and businesslike too.
Though I guess a private federation like how email works does offer a much more ...clinical view of the world.
Himbo Beefcake, PhD🔞✍️@prehensile I must be in the right space bcs I've yet to see a business-like post, it's just shitposts and art as far as the eye can see
Zin@jendrawscomics @prehensile @doot https://jorts.horse/@doot/109314352812651443
For me it's exactly this ingenious mix as I also followed some government accounts 🤣.
also bunny (@[email protected])
My favourite fedi posters are the ones who talk about piss one minute, followed by some nuanced shit on the function of gravity in superstring theory, then move on to the tender romance involved in fisting pikachu without skipping a beat
BoopyTheFoxAnd that's the BEAUTY of it!
niplavalso bunny (@[email protected])
My favourite fedi posters are the ones who talk about piss one minute, followed by some nuanced shit on the function of gravity in superstring theory, then move on to the tender romance involved in fisting pikachu without skipping a beat
stefan@prehensile Meanwhile half of fedi: meow, miau or any other cat noise also sometimes other animal noises like foxes as well.
@prehensile I like the fact that I’m seeing more people gush about the variety of things they are interested in on the fediverse, than the stupid nonsensical discourses and gender wars occuring daily on bird site. It feels refreshing, really.
Martin Moran 
@prehensile selfies, shitposts, pictures of food, "influencers" just looking for fame and adding nothing intelligent, generally vapid behaviour.... All reasons that I just ignored my birdsite and Facebook accounts for years.
I have hope for Mastodon...
hazelnot 
@ommoran @prehensile You literally sell insurance in your bio lmfao
You're exactly the kind of person most people here are trying to escape
This isn't LinkedIn and if it ever becomes LinkedIn it well have failed miserably
@hazelnot @prehensile I actually don't sell it, but it has been my career. Showing interest by displaying a hashtag shouldn't be considered otherwise.
Gatekeeping was also an unpleasant reality on the bird site. It would be nice if that didn't follow us here.
@ommoran @prehensile Nothing's following you anywhere, you're the one coming over here and turning the place into LinkedIn
Anthropy@prehensile wonder what linkedin-derived instance they're on to have a strictly professional experience, heh
Rev. Bussy Body of The Church of America MLM and Shooting Club@prehensile boosting this from an instance that uses a pleroma fork named after a little anime wizard girl
nikkiana@prehensile That's the thing that's kinda wild about it at the moment, I think.
You've got so many different groups of people who use social media in vastly different ways, in vastly different contexts, and most people also multiple contexts that you may or may not want to overlap.
Jyoti Mishra@prehensile Plenty of stupid and silly in my Home feed, just the way I like it.
The Duality of Xan@prehensile They only just got here. They’re still trying to look tidy and respectable. Give them a week or so.