I feel the same about the strengths of old twitter, and how it has mostly been replaced with meaningless yammer, bots and whatever "engagement" means. I recent

I feel the same about the strengths of old twitter, and how it has mostly been replaced with meaningless yammer, bots and whatever "engagement" means. I recently dusted off my old mastadon account, and it reminded me of the early days of twitter. I am sure people will find a way to screw up this one too, but for now I am happy to have something that resembles the good old days of twitter. Sceptics are talking about low usage and how it will never be as big as twitter. But for me that's just positive. In fact, mastadon does certain things a bit differently specifically to reduce meaningless "engagement". Hopefully this will also discourage "influencers" from joining :)