Just a moment of appreciation.

While chatting with Peg, I reflected on how there is so much I would just come right out and TALK about here on Masto that I never would on Twitte.

Twitter feels like Outside with everybody watching. Twitter feels like a crowded TGIFridays in your hometown, where you always might be twenty feet away from some motherfucker who knows you JUST well enough to feel entitled to come in and tell you off, if you say something they don't like.

Masto doesn't feel like my home, and it doesn't feel like a party, and there are entire rooms it's better if I just never open the doors to. But it at least feels like it's Indoors, and anybody I gotta deal with will probably at least have some context and sympathy.

It's interesting. I mean: I'm notoriously contentious, and probably obnoxious, as fuck. I am not known for holding back online. But I don't fight here. Like, ever. It's a place where a rhetorical brawl is unlikely to break out, and there's plenty of incentive to call it off immediately if it starts.

This, to my shame, is part of the reason I went back to Twitter. Sometimes I do want to walk straight into a Wretched Hive and pick a good old honest bar fight. But it feels really good to have a place where I don't feel like I have to watch my back, put up a front, or most importantly, listen to ideologies that make me want to smack people.