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, 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 that seemed to prove that the Fediverse continues to be weird in pretty much only the exhausting ways.

I’ll stick to Bluesky for now.