Everyone #bellyaching about the #Mastodon #learningcurve needs to remember #twitter was 'hard' at first. It got easy because you learned it. This will get easier too.

Also you were trained to think being manipulated & #attention_raped, often by bots, was normal. You were trained to think #commodifying & #monetising every online encounter was normal. It is not.

Now you need to learn to socialise with others w/o asking to be paid for it or holding up begging notices 'will eat dirt for likes'.