i've been using mastodon less than twitter recently and i think it's cuz using mastodon has become kinda exhausting. I feel like I can't say anything that's particularly... bold or sharp... without it becoming a network-wide Discourse everything is passive-aggressive and complaining that we're talking about Tough Shit. plus my mentions will be swarmed with random strangers with poor social skills cracking inappropriate unfunny jokes or relating personal information i don't want to know.

I don't like how I can't say Google w/o someone coming in and telling me to use FOSS. It's exhausting. Even my jokes I've been putting more on twitter cuz even if they're received better here I'll also get tons of ppl Not Getting The Joke and demanding I explain the joke... I have friends on here and I like using this as a more personal place to hang out, but for Content, Opinions, Jokes... twitter is less tiring to post on

I think a lot of Mastodon... it's walking on eggshells not because everyone gets offended but more cuz it feels very fragile here. We always CW Trump but even if you CW it if you post abt him a lot ppl will subtoot u for giving a shit about impending apocalypse. Everyone here doesn't want to engage with the panic and anxiety outside and I Get It That's Super Real but it can also feel suffocating

A part of this is just that on Mastodon I'm Super popular and influential, while on Twitter I have some popular mutuals but I'm not personally popular; and I'm sure if I was twitter famous it'd be exhausting to post there too.