This is primarily why I don’t advocate for Bluesky as anything but a “if you really must have literally twitter but not twitter”. Mastodon and the Fediverse is actually not centralized! How inviting of hope.

This is a great write-up on how wider and more consistent applications of metadata could be used, abused, neglected, and how ultimately all and none of this ended up happening.

It’s an interesting and prescient time capsule coming from 2001.

This is someone who I am an acquaintance of. Somehow, I’m actually rather surprised they live in Russia!

A lot of services are hard to access in Russia, and require VPNs. However, it seems as though the VPNs are also quite hard to access now?