@kissane ... yes, the federation model is messy. It's trying to replicate human social structures, it's going to be messy.

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discovered I was on some kind of different continent from my friends, and could not follow them, nor they Immediately felt frustration and disgust and never looked back

But you didn't move to the new continent to be with your friends?

To me, Mastodon participation is citizenship, not "userdom". A lot of the quotes belie that people don't want citizenship?