It definitely was different back then, but these days you could get, or choose to engage, more often.
Of course, these days, managing your streams/timeline is something you do regularly, which we almost didn't have to do back then.
I say, this is still a better social network experience than the mainstream ones.
@gowin
Cannot agree more.
On the other hand - sometimes I don't even logged in to some mainstream social media - and some of these sites apparently cannot load properly.
Mastodon/Fediverse loads even on poor internet connection (just sufficient for me to get some dopamine bursts 馃槄)