@emsenn it feels a little dismissive to be like "some girl"

greta has been striking from school every friday for over a year to protest and call her government to take stronger action on climate change, and it's inspired a lot of other young people to give a shit and take this thing seriously

yea, a lot of the admiration is shallow, yea lots of people don't know the history and they should

but maybe don't shit on people just because their activism doesn't look like yours, 🤷

2017: mastodon instances
2018: everybody writes their own ActivityPub server from scratch, the fediverse gets real weird

IMO metrosexual should be redefined from "guys who get their eyebrows done" to "people who are only attracted to subterranean rail systems"

Oh wait oh more newbie tips

anime avatars aren't Nazis/MRA/trash here! they just like anime!

I joined mastodon and loved the generally friendlier atmosphere (which I realize has not exactly been everybody's experience here)

But the longer I've used it, the more I've realized how much I love the freedom from ads, trackers, and feed algorithms