I'm reading @sarahjeong's story about Mastodon and completely relating to her description of twitter addiction.

"Is the Merriam-Webster dictionary subtweeting the president today? I wish I knew, so I could pretend to not care. I am scum and don't deserve mastodon.social. But here I am."

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mastodon-is-like-twitter-without-nazis-so-why-are-we-not-using-it

@sarahjeong @micahflee this one got me: "My relief at being on a social network that Julian Assange does not post on is almost perfectly counterbalanced by my regret that I cannot troll him."

Replace Assange with who/whatever, but the stream of interactive participation and commentary on 🐦 site is interesting and engaging (whether real or imagined). Perhaps federation can address both--distance and connection.