Wow, didn’t fully realize how much social network disfunction over the past decade+ depressed my excitement and dev output of small tools for the public.

Used to make browser extensions with abandon. But twitter became dev hostile in many ways, google+ tanked, friendfeed was bought and unceremoniously buried.

Mastodon/fediverse reignited the 🔥.

Spent the beginning of my winter break making #FedThreader [1] and launched it today—feels good, real good.

[1]
https://mastodon.social/@mwittman/109553896375666574

@mwittman oddly enough it's been exhausting to wade through reams of bots, trolls, and stupid arguments the algorithm thinks you'll find upsetting enough to engage with.

Oh, and the ads. So very many ads.

@violetmadder Exactly. It’s so pervasive many people assume it’s always been that way.
We have to make and choose a better way.