I joined this site a fortnight ago today.

I did not have a clue how it worked, or about its lore and culture.

Now, it seems intuitive - though not because I am adept but because networks and protocols are familiar and practical things.

We use them all the time: www, mobiles, emails, etc.

And this place is structured to encourage calm civility.

It was Twitter which was strange and, in many ways, inhumane - rewarding clicks and rage and vileness.

We just got used to it.

And now we are out.

@davidallengreen Twitter is a space where divisiveness flourishes in part because people give oxygen and highlight divisive tweets with our comments ie Nigel Farage (we are guilty of it too). Can you imagine how little traction people like him would get if that wasn’t the case. People like him will hate Mastodon
@BremainInSpain @davidallengreen Farage has like Johnson done souch damage to GB.