It's actually pretty amazing that a open source product developed by a tiny non-profit, running on a network of servers self-funded by volunteer administrator and moderators has managed to absorb some portion of one of the world's largest for-profit social networks.

It's a miracle the whole thing didn't collapse or catch fire.

Great job everyone.

@mike This shows us that we don’t need corporations to run social networks. It’s entirely possible to do this with a network of dedicated nerds doing this in their free time, and the end result is actually so much better than corporate social media. The profit motive does in fact not make things better but actually so much worse. We can build parallel structures ourselves without relying on corporations.
@enby_of_the_apocalypse @mike Agreed, this is what a social network should be. Not an info grabbing corp feeding you "what's trending"