@williampietri you may or may not recall idk (our own personal experiences obvi are writ larger in our minds than in anyone else's) that I had a rough go on mastodon for a minute, which made me leave for a few months and nearly shut it down altogether. There was a personalized pileup shaming quality to the way a certain group decided I was "bad" (including making wild associative accusations about what I did research on that were just fully lies/wrong). Some of that got couched in reply guys...