Faraiwe<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lauren</span></a></span> as Rodney quipped, the crowd is the difference.</p><p>Where hype is king, twitter, xitter, blewski) people want immediate gratification and easy-to-grasp, pounded-into-earth-with-dead-horse comfortable notions, not actual studied ideas about any subject more complex than fantasy football.</p><p>The <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> is geeked-out, made by and for people who are curious about how things around them work, the whys-wherefores and whatnots.</p><p>It's nicer, here.</p>