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.
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
@sargoth @jakobpunkt
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 ^_^