When Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022, my suggestions to move to Mastodon were met with resistance and outright hostility. When I informed my peers where my "backup" VTuber account was, most of them worried for me. I let it roll off my back; you can say Mastodon didn't have the best first impression. You may have heard that it has the aptly-earned rep of being difficult and perilous, especially for Black people.