I have been grousing this week about the One Big Thing I miss about Twitter (it’s Quote Tweets).

But I also think it’s worth taking a moment to reflect on how fortunate we all were that Mastodon had been built (both as a software and a pre-existing set of communities) so it was there when we all needed to get off the burning ship.

And, as an extra stroke of luck, those communities were generally ready to welcome us in.

It wasn’t a given.