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I decided to grit my teeth this morning and try to sign up for Mastodon. (Not entirely as a way of procrastinating on my dissertation & job application duties, I assure you.) So far it appears to be the most annoying aspects of Discord (everything is fragmented and split into a bunch of servers you have to know about to find!) with the least fun aspects of Twitter (tiny posts! usernames & display names may vary! images everywhere! obscure rules! hard-to-find settings for any damn thing I actually want to set about my experience, if the option is there at all!), but, I don't know, maybe I'll come to like it eventually?

To be honest, the main things I want out of a Twitter replacement are 1) a handy way to casually browse lots of tiny comments from acquaintances about their current life experiences, 2) a good place to livetweet the lectures & academic books I'm experiencing myself. Everything else, well, I got Dreamdwidth for long-form posting and Slack/Discord for small locked communities of chatter with friends. So I don't know if Mastodon is gonna do me any good at all.

But I really do hope not to lose that livetweeting of cool academic things. I've met a lot of neat people and gotten a lot of interesting conversations, that way.

I miss the era of sandwich tweets.