Mastodawn

Tom Forsyth Nov 19, 2022

A reminder that Twitter was not made as you see it today. At the start it was literally an SMS frontend. It didn't have concepts like threads, DMs, groups, privacy (ha!), blocking, muting or any of that crap. ALL THAT GREW ORGANICALLY - at first just as conventions, later adopted.

We will figure out how to use Mastodon. And some of those ways will be adopted officially (whatever that means!). This is our place. We'll shape it. Give it time.

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Syscrusher

@TomF It is worth remembering that Linux -- the free and open operating system that runs much of the Internet and many other things -- was literally created by Linus Torvalds in his spare time "just for fun." (And yes, that's a quote of his own words.)

Behold the power of a good idea freely shared!