if your tech friends want a mastodon account we're still here, registrations just require a reason because of spammers. if they put even a short sentence about wanting to join for x reason we usually approve it
oh i guess minor #introductions since i'm not on here much, i'm one of the admins of mastodon.technology and mostly pop in for big happenings and the occasional work vent.
if i deny your follow request don't take it personally, i just post a lot of semi-personal stuff followers-only these days, and am fairly choosy about who i add because of that
also if you have any really good real-life cat faces you want added as emojis let me know, i made a habit of collecting them a while back and now it's turned into a hopeless and crippling cate addiction 
we are also still monitoring reports, don't worry. don't forget to report bad actors when you see em. ash and I try to DM responses to each report