I was pretty much only seeing people from my instance in comments. Or people that they followed. Joind an explicitly leftist instance because it had more charecterst to play with and it felt empty.

Oh holy shit is that when I tried mastodon it felt like a ghost town with people only posting and no one engaging in discussions?

That's true of a lot of colleges.

I'm going to push back because as society exists now there are a lot of cities I have been to where the graveyard is the most easily accessible green space. I don't know how weird it may be but sitting with the dead in the quite separated from the surroundings was one of my favorite things to experience. I'm not a religious/spiritual person and it was very helpful in connecting to the people who died before I met them.

So you're friend helps hide corruption?

Theft. The answer is IP theft.

The general feeling of hating everything about myself that was slightly "masculine" when I started having to shave I was sad about it. I hate looking at myself in the mirror and seeing a man looking back at me. I realized that wasn't normal when I was maybe 16(?) I genuinely thought most men if they could would choose to magically wake up as a girl.

oh for sure. Wasn't being serious, dysphoria is there and makes me basically think of existing as a man as hell and finding out that's not everyone was interesting to say the least.

I'm still not entirely convinced tbh. I mean women are cute and just great and men are...

Just one more lane and they'll have enough room for rush hour traffic.