I posted over at the Birdsite that I think its "operational metaphor is Reality TV Set. It looks like a house, but nothing is private; everything is recorded & commodified. Its mantra is 'I'm not here to make friends.'"
Other people have been talking about how mastodon feels like many other "early" internet spaces. I hope that means (modulo instance) it's a place that's amenable to make friends.
TL;DR: I AM HERE TO MAKE FRIENDS (even though am bad at making friends)
Ripples and a-wibbles
Tentacles and tribbles
Dancing to inhuman rhythm
Cos they're non-Euclidean
The whole ship shimmies
When everything is moving around and around and around and around
Everything is moving
Everything is grooving baby
Folks lining up outside
Our dimension
Just to get down
Funky little planet
Funky little planet
Lovecraft
has a little old place where
we can get together
Lovecraft, HP
Lovecraft, HP Lovecraft
Lovecraft, HP Lovecraft
bang bang bang
on the door baby
(shriek)
if you see a faded sign
at the side of the shore
that says fifteen miles to
(roar)
I'm headed down
the Innsmouth coastline
looking for
a space out of time
headed for a space out of time
i got me a ship
it's as big as a Shoggoth
and we're headed out to meet
a fun guy from Yuggoth
I got me a cruiser
from the Miskatonic faculty
so hurry up and bring
your forbidden archaeology
Lovecraft
has a little old place where
we can get together
Lovecraft, HP
Lovecraft, HP Lovecraft
Lovecraft, HP Lovecraft
I saw Gillian Welch in concert over 20 years ago, and she described "My Morphine" as having the world's slowest yodel. I remember it being lightly funny, with looks between her and Rawlings sparking smiles during the chorus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUoZPtE7fV0