@WarnerCrocker Ah so I'm late coming to the 'skeptical as first reflex'. My nature and strength is to be guileless and trust my intuition about people. But that's in person
Parsing who's worthy of trust in the public sphere is harder. I feel shock deeply when public trust is betrayed. It's been a very hard decade+. Mastodon has been a refuge I don't want to change
I don't want to lose my openness and become embittered, cynical. But the fight that's coming may require that armor. I grieve :-(