zachleat.com is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.

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Having a sizeable following on social media hardens you—in the same way that any small measure of power might.

At our worst we think of this as a suit of armor, a sort of mental toughness.

At our best we mourn this as a loss of compassion, a subtraction of our humanity and connectedness.