I’ve been mastoing. Actually tooting. In Masterdonia. Ok, what I’ve really been doing is using mastodon.social (that’s the URL), a potential Twitter alternative - the community hasn’t quite got the lingo down yet though. It’s familiar, because it’s similar to Twitter, but at the same time, all the percolating aggression and designed-in conflict is absent. It’s youthful optimism to Twitter’s embittered decrepitude.
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Jimmy Tidey
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