It''s my fediversary -- eight years since I set up this account! I've had multiple accounts since then, and these days am mostly at @jdp23@neuromatch.social, but this was my home base for quite a while and I still enjoy it here whenever I check in. Thanks to the original admins for setting it up and inviting me, to @woozle for doing such a great job running it over the years, all the folks here for keeping the local feed interesting, and the Glitch developers for years of producing software that's so much better for communities than vanilla Mastodon!
Like so many othes I was drawn here thanks to @sarahjeong's Mastodon Is Like Twitter Without Nazis, So Why Are We Not Using It? [www.vice.com] and it's interesting to look at what has and hasn't changed since then -- Lessons (so far) from Mastodon for independent social networks [privacy.thenexus.today], originally written in May 2017, remains very relevant. Still, despite all the ups and downs I remain optimstic about the potential of decentralized social networks (although realistic about the challenges). If not now, when? [privacy.thenexus.today] has some of my current thoughts. Looking forward to another 8 years!
@jdp23@toot.cat @jdp23@neuromatch.social @woozle @sarahjeong glad you are here ...and there...and also there.
@jdp23@toot.cat @jdp23@neuromatch.social @woozle @sarahjeong wait, Mastodon is supposed to be an uncensorable platform.
There have to be nazis around here somewhere. (Grammar nazis don't count, those are good guys.)
Can some nazi please raise their right hand?
Oh there are plenty of nazis around, don't encourage them. And there were actually plenty of nazis around back then too. But part of why toot.cat is such a good platform is that the admin makes it a point to block nazi and "freeze peach" instances -- and mas.to's admin is good at that too. So we're less likely to encounter them.
@dormouse759 @jdp23 @jdp23@neuromatch.social @sarahjeong
They're over there in the corner [points], recovering from the fedi banhammer.