that feeling when there's someone you have kind of wanted to meet for a while on mastodon, but you look at their posts and it's almost entirely manual boosts of twitter content from other people... >.< Even if it's like, good stuff, that's not.
Words. Guh.
@Felthry Makes it feel like they don't hang out here, they just share the stuff from the social media site they care about here?
@packbat yeah, I suppose that's true
I just. Wish people would stop thinking of this as a twitter alternative or a side-site and just. Actually engage with people. Build friendships and communities, be yourself
@Felthry *nods*
sometimes people don't have a space for another community
still kind of ... like, there's something already happening here that a lot of us here care about quite a lot - we want people coming here to care about what we're doing here
and not caring - using this site to just ... do something completely else? can feel like treading roughshod over what what we want this to be
idk, I'm guessing
@packbat I dunno. Meeting people is ahrd? >.<
@packbat I guess that's why we almost exclusviely know people we've only met incidentally
@Felthry if I had advice for introducing yourself to someone you want to meet, I'd give it 😞
idk, could borrow a trick from a friend of mine and make a request with a "and saying 'no' is fine - honest request" or something on it
be clear that yeah, you think this person is interesting and would like to have a chance to chat with them but that that doesn't oblige them in any way
@Felthry *nods*
you could give it a shot?
who knows, maybe it'll work
maybe they're posting posts from Twitter because they haven't found a community here yet.