Whenever I try to get people to try mastodon, they usually give up because it’s too tech-geeky, either in the onboarding or in the culture here. I’m doing my best to post moss, mushrooms, dogs, music, and bad wordplay—and many of you are too, I know. But I swear every new introduction post I see starts off great (queer, artsy, nature, ACAB) and then pivots directly to software engineer, video gamer, youtuber, data analyst, defense contractor. Like, welcome, but damn it’s jarring!