Okay here's a real toot that you can actually boost without people looking at you like you're crazy.
https://medium.com/@alliethehart/gameingers-are-dead-and-so-is-mastodon-705b535ed616
The past few weeks (okay, ever since the schism) I've felt kind of disenchanted by Mastodon and especially its development environment, and I wrote an essay about why that is. It's long, but if you're interested in Mastodon's history or politics you should give it a read.
@u2764 I've addressed this (from the PoV of an April, 2017 joinee) as "The Normal Invasion".
https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/1058991
(I hope to properly rewrite this into an essy, but this is the present format.)
Remember: Facebook was once /literally Harvard/. And whatever you think of either institution, that's no longer the case.
@dredmorbius the word "queer" doesn't show up even once in the entire tootstream so i'm not sure you've really addressed this. if anything it's an example of the kind of erasure of historical context that
@u2764 talks about.