Okay here's a real toot that you can actually boost without people looking at you like you're crazy.
https://medium.com/@alliethehart/gameingers-are-dead-and-so-is-mastodon-705b535ed616
The past few weeks (okay, ever since the schism) I've felt kind of disenchanted by Mastodon and especially its development environment, and I wrote an essay about why that is. It's long, but if you're interested in Mastodon's history or politics you should give it a read.
@u2764 I've addressed this (from the PoV of an April, 2017 joinee) as "The Normal Invasion".
https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/1058991
(I hope to properly rewrite this into an essy, but this is the present format.)
Remember: Facebook was once /literally Harvard/. And whatever you think of either institution, that's no longer the case.