Tell your #fedistory?
Here’s mine:
I’d tried #facebook, but it turned out I didn’t really like much of what the people in my real life had to say. And, you probably won’t believe this but, I’m argumentative. Got in tangles with people on the regular. This was right around 2008 when #Zuckerberg started dictating what we’d see. Ditched it for #twitter and never went back.

Wasn’t on social media at all for years. But decided to give twitter a try around 2018. Really liked it actually. It definitely suited my personality better than facebook. Got a ton of traction with my posts and built a respectable following over 2-3 years. Made some good online friends that, unfortunately, are still there. Ian Welsh being one of them. Carlos Mucha another. @costrike a third, but he was smart and migrated right around the time Elon took over. Took me another month or so.

Funnily enough, when #Elon took over, the popular #leftist tweets I’d been making in the past started going nowhere. Also, leftist accounts I followed, like Ian’s, stopped showing on my feed at the same time. I actually did tests by DM’ing followers to see if we were seeing each others tweets in real time. We weren’t.

This was indisputable proof Elon was politically #sandbagging popular leftist accounts. I’d heard about #Mastodon, but didn’t really know much about it. Did some research. @pluralistic definitely helped me understand the #fediverse. I was like #WhatTheFuck? Where has this been all my life? Thank you @Gargron !!!!

Never going anywhere else. As @aral said the other day:

“There’s stupid and then there’s paying for twitter stupid.”

Amen to that brother.
Peace love and Mastodon, my pachydermal friends.

A beautiful, but scary (because so plausible), short story by Fred Motson in PDSE: "Access to Justice".

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42438-022-00375-4

#openaccess #fedistory #datafication #law #academia

What's the next line?

I picked up my ukulele with my feet and began to play.

#story #FediStory #Writing