My gut is telling me that Mastodon is having an issue today.
It could be WRONG, mind you; my gut doesn't have a perfect track record. But I have a feeling that suddenly a bunch of responses are going to flood in. Kind of like a surge of peristalsis, know what I mean?
That's how I view Mastodon: as a huge length of human intestine, pumping information along with occasional delays and blockages. Which makes it feel more •human•, oddly enough.
By the way, I'm really liking the use of bullets for emphasis instead of asterisks. It looks better, somehow. What do you think?