So I've opened a few more accounts on a couple of other instances; it's very cool to see the different culture and user bases at each.
For one of them, I imported my follows from here. For the other two, I've been hodge-podge-dly building a new follow list by finding some people I enjoy already, and new people found on the other local and federated instances.
If I keep going like this, I am not sure if I'll fragment myself or if this is a good way to experience different sides of this medium.
...also, Mastodon is encouraging me to do things that I already wanted to do:
* learn languages (French, Spanish, Danish, Gaelic)
* brush up on my CSS & JavaScript skills
* learn languages (Angular, Ruby)
It has encouraged me to write introspective posts. It has made me laugh out loud at the sheer cleverness of others. It has been a safe space to show up as 100% me, non-curated: just me.
My meta-metamour has used 'a series of cat-food tins' and an old printer to shore up and angle the indoor a/c so that it doesn't vibrate angrily after thirty minutes of running -- it does this because the bucket gets full.
He is brilliant and knows it, lol.
When you actually act outside of the expected cultural norms, even in harmless ways, people get scared.
If you want to make a police officer question their authority, dress up like a respectable (HA) business person and do the turkey curse at them.
'Everyone' knows that you can ignore a homeless person acting like they are crazy, or a businessman yelling at a waiter about poor service. But if you shift any of these things even slightly..
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