The mastodon stages:
1: getting used to the interface
2: discovering that most people are just people, engaged in everyday adventures, big & small
3: the allure of the notification sound
4: a gradual getting used to the fact that not everything is about US politics, and that it's okay to filter it out on a macro level
5: a quiet moment when you think "there can still be poetry in this world"
6: some sort of reconciliation with the quantum magic that is the federated timeline
7: pineapples
@sargoth I'm somewhere between 5 and 6 right now. I super don't understand the pineapples or the polar bear. I get that there's nothing to get, but I still don't get it.
also, if you want to get streets ahead of the crowd on what not to get
start not getting sledbonk
and you'll see the return on your misunderstanding investment ^_^
@jakobpunkt @sargoth
then you are actually secretly at stage 7
you know you don't get it, and that is what's to get
we all don't get it, fren
it okay
I don't get it either*
* oat-ther