After experiencing a few instances where someone linked to a user on Mastodon to share a post, I began reconsidering my choice to abandon the platform completely. Sure, I *had* been forced to relocate my account twice due to instances shutting down, and *yes* I did remember finding search and discovery processes basically non-existent on the platform, but it’s about the *users* not the technology, right?
That’s when I remembered [Technology Connections,](https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections){:target="_blank"} a YouTube content creator who posts to a variety of other social networks including Mastodon. He had expressed his disappointment in the platform *and* the community before I had left the system, but I wondered if things had changed. I [found a post on a Lemmy instance](https://pawb.social/post/17092569){:target="_blank"} that seemed to prove that the Fediverse continues to be weird in pretty much [only the exhausting ways.](https://pawb.social/post/17092569/12337220){:target="_blank"}
I’ll [stick to Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/dhepworth.com){:target="_blank"} for now.