@littlegravitas I feel super-weird about it but actually I mostly don't automatically follow back - I am very particular about who I follow in order to avoid feeling overloaded on social media! I know from experience that if there's too much and it's mostly irrelevant I will just feel increasingly terrible until I unfollow like 99% of people and start over. Oof. :D

@littlegravitas Yeah I think you're right about Mastodon being less follower-competitive, some instances even entirely hide follower/follow counts by design. There was one witchy instance that showed everyone's follow/follower number as 666, regardless of the true number, that was fun. :D Its replacement is eldritch.cafe, I think it's still going!

This person 3D-printed a 5-hole button so they could sew it onto something with a pentagram! :O https://www.reddit.com/r/WitchesVsPatriarchy/comments/s69ao4/my_favorite_sweater_lost_a_button_so_i_3d_printed/