I own with no shame at all that having joined a Federation which has a Ferengi-like enemy currently making plans to invade, it's just delightful. I am so up for

I own with no shame at all that having joined a Federation which has a Ferengi-like enemy currently making plans to invade, it's just delightful. I am so up for this fight, because this MOREEYEBALLSFASTER mentality is like a set of horse blinders on those who exhibit it. The VC viewpoint seems to be that we need more people over there in Mastodon, but the fact of the matter is that I am having the best interactions I have ever had on the internet, and a bunch of Facebook people, well, it would be like back in January of 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, when all the CMKs (Christmas Modem Kiddies) showed up and filled the BBSes with inane stupidity for a few weeks, until they found a new distraction. Then later, you know, on Usenet, we used to complain daily about the idiocy of AOL users who had been provided with an easy onramp to fill up our boards with inane stupidity, but unlike the CMKs who would fade out after a while, like a yearly fishfly life cycle, the AOL people just kept coming and coming and coming. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!