Art can be a wonderful catalyst for emotions. I remember my little thriller box that I invented after I found the background image (more in the alt text). Given the current political situation, I immediately realise who my fictitious muffin-baking princess would fill into cans and send to Mars without return ticket.

I serendipitously chose Fosstodon 5 years ago when joining the Fediverse. Lucky for me, it's still going strong, becoming one of the more lively instances while others have since shut down (victim of success); #FOSS remains one of the few active Fediverse topics.

Mastodon has an onboarding problem similar to Linux. Say "join Mastodon!" but 1st you need to find an "instance" (choose a distro). And there are many bad choices and footguns when you want to switch later to another one.