Oh, that means so much to me, thank you!
I think of Mastodon and the Fedi as a place of resonances.
Not so much a place of detailed arguments, but a place of sharing snippets of life experience with each other. These experiences sometimes resonate with others, and those resonances then re-afffirm our blessings and they help us manage our fears. Subtly, slowly, awkwardly, but it does happen, and ultimately we all change for the better.