> I guess Mastodon is bigger than I thought since running an instance gives you so much recognition. That part threw me off too. It almost sounded like people

> I guess Mastodon is bigger than I thought since running an instance gives you so much recognition. That part threw me off too. It almost sounded like people were damning her with faint praise: talking about her Mastodon instance as one of her big accomplishments sounded to me about as insulting as saying that one's big achievement was running a really cool Minecraft server. But I guess the modern world is a weird place.