I see many of us have landed upon the very best healthiest social media user experience possible: all of us existing simultaneously on six or seven different platforms, waving our hands in the dark hoping to find each other again, and quivering with FOMO like a bunch of shaved chihuahuas.

@JuliusGoat

Eh.

Call me a weirdo, but I've always felt the strength of social media like Mastodon wasn't the ability to keep up with select folks you're already familiar with, but the ability to explore brand new horizons of strange and colorful people you may have never encountered otherwise.

I know all of maybe 5-6 folks I follow/am followed by on here IRL (or from elsewhere online.) Pretty much everyone else is "hey, they look neato mosquito, I'ma check 'em out," and that's just awesome.