As I get deeper into Mastodon, I'm torn about whether and how much I actually want to recreate the "other place" experience here. There are some people I followed avidly on the bird site, that I'm not entirely sure I want to follow here, for example. And I'm not sure how much I want to use this space to be political. I want to engage here. I want to have conversations with people about everything from Senate reform to the future of agriculture. But....
@Paulatics
I thought about this a lot before I started following people, so I tried a little experiment.
I went to Twitter, scrolled, and looked at how many posts I actually got value from, interacted with in a productive way, and how I felt reading through all the updates.
Then, I came here and repeated the process.
It was like day and night. Here, I communicate about the things I enjoy and have interest in.
As a marketing professional, I know that the growth is slower, but the value is still there and the connections are stronger because they're built on mutual passions and interests rather than against something or because of something negative.
If I keep the bird app, I'm probably going to unfollow most and realign my feeds.
Just my thoughts while I'm going between the two apps.
