The mastodon stages:

1: getting used to the interface

2: discovering that most people are just people, engaged in everyday adventures, big & small

3: the allure of the notification sound

4: a gradual getting used to the fact that not everything is about US politics, and that it's okay to filter it out on a macro level

5: a quiet moment when you think "there can still be poetry in this world"

6: some sort of reconciliation with the quantum magic that is the federated timeline

7: pineapples

@sargoth Yeah I'm literally coming here to get away from the constant political talk. It's important but it's taking up WAY TO MUCH brain space.

Here I just wanna joke around, make friends, and talk about silly shit.

@ErykDonovan it's important to rest & recharge every once in a while

the brain was not built to be in 100% serious talk mode all the time

@sargoth @ErykDonovan I've been feeling really low lately because I feel like people I knew are scattering across the platforms, I am going to migrate away from twitter completely into mastodon and discord. Just being here is making my head feel lighter.

@croxus @sargoth Discord has been really great too as a way to connect with my gaming friends. It is definitely hard though to keep track of so many.

@ErykDonovan @sargoth I have two servers on discord, one english and one norwegian to keep track of someone of my inner circle friends. I want to get more on there, but I'd prefer to join other's servers and not have to make my own and herd people there :p

@croxus @ErykDonovan how even did people stay in touch in the olden days, I will never understand

@sargoth @ErykDonovan MSN and obscure forums you stumbled over at 4 am. Oh you mean before the internet? Messages in bottles and petitions to the gods.