If you come to the #fediverse to seek fame, rethink your objectives.
Place isn’t built for that.
If you come to #mastodon to seek community, you’ll be doing much better.
If you come here to be as simply and authentically yourself as possible under the circumstances, you’ll be just fine.
Kinda cool to find others I didn’t know I’d want to find and that others who didn’t know they’d want to find me do find me.
@Aphrodite Agree so much. I made a similar observation about an hour ago: https://indieweb.social/@charlesroper/109394194876424747.
I am honestly so surprised to have had such a good experience here.
I left Twitter in 2018 and, although I knew about Mastodon from years before, never joined because the birdsite was such a burnout experience.
So, since 2018 I've been isolated. Until now. I joined a few Slacks and Discords, but none stuck. Mastodon is like that first true spring day after a particularly harsh winter. 🌱
What I love about #Mastodon is not just the breadth of voices here (depth and quality all do indeed seem better). What I love is how being strident, or aggressive, or angry doesn't AMPLIFY in the same way it did on the birdsite. On Mastodon, quieter voices have a chance. Here feels more about discourse and persuasion than it does about anger, brutality, and aggression. The sun rules here, not the wind. https://read.gov/aesop/143.html "Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail."
Aphrodite (recharging)
Charles Roper