“plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose” Mastodon reminds me of IRC, back in the 90s. I had favorite IRC servers, the latter being a UMN server. IRC was a leap for me from my mom’s iastate dot edu account in 1994. I moved from CopperDiku and Usenet to IRC. I literally work in tech now because of those opportunities. So when you see a youngin who seems fascinated by what you do, please… initiate them. I guarantee it will help.