@donmelton Hey there! Long time no see. I’m enjoying the reminiscences about 20 years of Safari and hoping I’m not doomed to 20 more!

@othermaciej LOL!! 🤣 So, how's life at the Fruit Company treating you then? Do they at least let you out to play every once in a while?

@donmelton Yeah it’s not so bad. I get to play with my cats now and then.

@othermaciej Excellent! Those little furballs have immense power to keep us sane. Even my batshit crazy Chihuahua.

So, what prompted you to finally join Mastodon?

@donmelton What put me over: Musk's totally arbitrary moderation policies (I foolishly thought he might be serious about fostering more of a free speech culture).

Plus a few times when I read threads on Mastodon that seemed more thoughtful and engaging than threads about the same topic on Twitter.

It took me a while though because I overthought which server to join.

@othermaciej I think I joined the night that Space Karin lumbered into Twitter HQ with that fucking sink. 😀 I could see how that story was gonna unfold and I wanted out. This is what I wrote the following week:

https://mstdn.social/@donmelton/109328088572141137

You're right about the conversations here. It's so refreshing. Even better than Twitter "back in the day," as they say.

I didn't put a lot of thought into which server I joined but I'm glad of the choice I made. My server is big but not too big. So I'm good.

@donmelton Yeah your post back then pretty much called it. Things seem a little less hectic now than in the immediate wake of the acquisition, but I think there is still a lot of slow burn disaster happening. Also continuing ad-hoc moderation decisions.

@deirdresm finally made the plunge!