Pine Aura

So with the recent uh events with twit there's been a huge influx of people leaving or trying to join other places instead. Mastodon has definitely been a common enough place people are attempting to try out. Every now and then there's a lil boost of new users from another site doing something people don't like or agree with, but this is the first time I've seen something of this scale since I've first joined it.

It's amazing to see so many people willing to try and everyone else is trying to help the new users settle in and the like. It's part of the reason I like Mastodon. It feels far more welcoming than twit for sure.

That said, this is also the first time where I've felt overwhelmed on Mastodon hahaha There's just suddenly So Much happening there with all the new users and their posts and conversations happening that I've actually had to just step away from it because wow

Things will probably settle down soon enough and inevitably some people won't bother returning to Mastodon (new site means you need to learn a new culture and how things work and sometimes it just doesn't vibe with some people - it's normal), but it's also nice to know that there's a lil more activity happening there. I used to spend like maybe five minutes to scroll and catch up on the feed and notifs (if there's any) and if I felt like it, see what's happening in the local timeline. This week however, I've not been able to catch up on my home timeline in those five minutes at all haha

Should be interesting to see if I'll have a steady feed there now. I'd much rather check up on Masto stuff than twit stuff, you know?

It's always interesting to me when a smaller, cozier place like Mastodon seems to grant me more activity on my work than places like twitter. Like even before I switched to the art instance on Masto I had more people looking at my stuff while I only got crickets on twit.

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