Mastodon server at SDF
       Monday Nov 14  9:04:33 2022
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       I am not really keen on mainstream social networks. However, my
       curiosity led me some years ago to sign up for facebook (I deleted my
       account after a couple of weeks) and I also got a twitter account
       (that I never used at all). I bet there is nothing wrong in trying
       things to see if you like them or not. 
       
       Sometimes, from a selfish point of view, it is good to sign up to
       prevent someone else from stealing your username. I remember that
       several years ago, I would have traded almost anything to get a
       chals@live.com for personal reasons, however, it was already taken. I
       arrived too late! Nevermind. I do not want it anymore.
       
       When this crazy migration to mastodon began (users moving from
       twitter to mastodon) I thought: "Oh my! People are so stupid." But
       well, thinking it twice I recall that many of us moved to libera irc
       in a similar way after freenode was purchased by a single individual.
       And I do not have any data here but I bet that libera is growing
       bigger and bigger while freenode is not really hitting big numbers.
       At least that is my perception. Your milleage may vary.
       
       All this going round in circles is to say that I got a mastodon
       account on the sdf server yesterday. I have not posted anything yet,
       but at least I can say that I didn't flee away from twitter. Not
       strictly speaking at least.
       
       And who knows? I may not intend to post anything, but maybe I get
       hooked on it and start posting everyday.
       
       It is a commonplace but only time will tell.