@ZiaNitori i am trying (and failing) to post more often here though!

@exiliaex for me i just kept the tab open next to other tabs i used regularly and i'd usually end up checking once a day which is usually the habit i want to be in with social media that unless i'm arguing with someone or trying to have an interesting conversation

@ZiaNitori thats basically how i do it. masto is the only social media i keep open on my computer. i open twitter and tumblr occasionally, especially if i stumbled into some discussion or something, but i've been trying to keep them off and away. i've uninstalled twitter from my phone to help. i hated the constant notifications. at one point it made me feel like the shit i was saying mattered and was reaching people. now i realize the ways in which i was being used.

another struggle of federated-social-media like mastodon is finding new people. i want to find people who share interesting things. i want to be far more judicious in how i determine who to interact with and share. i'm so tired of the infinite discourse loops. i need out. i need people who actually give a shit about things in the world more than abstractly through studies or theory.

@exiliaex my phone at this point is just the worlds worst tablet and i'm constantly losing it and not bothering to find it. it hasnt been in service for like a year at this point. i think i'll figure out how i want to fit twitter in better once i've got a routine going, but i kind of use it differently. to me it's an app for people watching and picking apart social behavior and while i'm sure i could grow into a more interesting person if i spent more time reading something instead of destroying my literacy on that website, i'm also definitely getting something useful from it and i keep managing to meet some interesting characters every now and then