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I'm closing up shop on my Mastodon for the foreseeable future

I'm walking away from Mastodon for a bit. Here's why.

Lately whenever I toot (that’s Mastodon for “post” or “tweet” for those of you in a Twitter mindset about it) about something that gets more than a couple of boosts, I’m overwhelmed with comments- mostly positive, but some of the nasty ones are really troubling. As I’ve been slowly changing careers from “sysadmin mom with occasional YouTube videos” to “full time maker”, it feels like the more I post, the more reply-guy syndrome rears its ugly head. Microblogging – the short form Twitter-style “posts” that Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads replicates, is increasingly feeling like the written version of TikTok- it’s just a chance to dunk on someone else to get a higher digital score.

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