I am extremely fond of Mastodon. I want to hang out here for a good long time. But I'm seeing a lot of my friends quietly detach from this place because there's so much "here are the etiquette rules for this tea shop, I can't believe you didn't lift your pinky" going around that, well, who has the energy for that these days?

I cope by just ignoring most of that, but then, I've got no following or public career to worry about.

@fade stick it out. It’s a different atmosphere from Twitter, better in a lot of ways…but this is also tends to be a deeply white male and neurodivergent space.

This is where all the Linux, Free/Open Source Software, INFOSEC guys hung out.

They probably think these cultural norms make sense but it only makes sense to them because they were here with similarly minded people before the Twitter Exodus crashed their secret garden.

As the network grows, it will get better.

@fade might be better to think of it as a new network to build.

Will everyone leave Twitter? No. Or at least, not until they’re driven out, or it goes into bankruptcy.

Tumblr is an interesting point, because yes, they do suck at social, but they’re building ActivityPub into the backend so it doesn’t suck so much.

So, for a while, it’s Twitter 2006 part 2: shouting into the void (again).

It won’t be that way for long.