Mastodon is full of interesting people, but deficient in personal connection. I have a few people on here that like to engage with my toots, but no friendships or creative collaborations have developed from it. Something about the style of interaction on here doesn't lend itself to forming friendships, and people prefer to keep a certain distance.
@sdm I'm trying my best to pretend that guy doesn't exist. I had a debate about racism in the United States with him and learned that he was about as narrow-minded about white people as he claimed that I was about black people. Every attempt I made at concluding in a way we could both agree with prompted another personal attack from him. At that point, I concluded that his intentions weren't good / he was disturbed / he had a chip on his shoulder, and I blocked him.
@thor huh. Interesting. Racism is a sensitive topic here and there might have been some cultural misunderstanding. He also could be bad at explaining things.