I'll say this: I have been dreaming of a decentralized social media platform for 15 years. Some sort of client that can connect in a way like email and newsgroups can. No strings attached. Few strings attached, at least.
Mastodon seems to fulfill this idea.
But now I need a commonality to make me use that client.
I do not like talking to strangers, this place being the exception. We all have a long history together.
That same history extends to my social media network. Friends that I mostly know in person.
People I have dined with, pirated with, schooled with, worked with, made out with.
If I had a political axe, a social axe, any axe at all, then interacting with strangers might interest me.
It's not too late to find new passions, but nothing is driving me now.
Interacting with people based on their celebrity is the worst way to encounter them, so Twitter is not particularly useful for me in that regard.
Dissemination of news is the most useful aspect of anonymous social media.
But that nuke in Moab* just spooks me.
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*Neal Stephenson reference
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