I've had an account on Mastodon, as well as some other Fediverse services, for a few years now. I quite like it. It reminds me of the early Twitter days, pre algorithm, when it was mostly technical-aligned folk chatting, networking (for fun) and talking tech (again, for fun).

I'm sure this will one day change and the diversity of individuals on there, which is already high, will continue to grow exponentially. I hope so, anyway. I also hope that the idea behind the fediverse survives and doesn't get extinguished, but I fear it may. Such is the evolution of an idea; it grows, cracks form, weeds take root, and then it starts falling apart. Generally this has something to do with the value of a share and priorities shifting and yadda yadda. You know how it all works. See the state of Reddit for a look at a deep-in-progress enshitification happening now.

For now, however, it's a generally nice place (and it's easy to remove the not-nice) full of interesting, vibrant folk with cool ideas and lots of hope for the Fediverse and, dare I say, the future.

In the interest of embracing the indieweb further, I have created another account dedicated solely to this site and my identity here. Don't expect anything great. Or anything at all. I've never been good at social anything, but it's a great way to connect with people and ideas, so I'm putting this little slice of me out there.

You can find me here: @[email protected].

Activity will be light, generally just cool stuff I find or learn about. Eventually I'll build support for WebMentions and other cool indieweb stuff and start syndicating things I post here out into the series of tubes we call the internet. But not the corporate internet. The human internet.

See ya on there.