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These days, Flowers has mostly stopped using Mastodon, not necessarily over the race issue, but because its weak discovery and search features made it too hard to find the people he wanted to follow. “It took me weeks to find some of my best friends and academic colleagues,” he says. Now he logs in for two main reasons: to check on “the kind of interestingly diverse Star Trek community there,” and to look at cat pictures.