Werner Herzog’s Mastodon: A Descent into the Federated Abyss

(Footage of server error messages, ancient memes and a lone penguin trudging across ice)

Herzog voiceover: Mastodon is not a social network. it is a cruel experiment in decentralized yearning. Each server a fragile island in a sea of loneliness held together by spite and CSS

The people here: disillusioned scholars, artists, shitposters, furries,and someone named [email protected]
, speak in codes I cannot decipher

There is no algorithm. there is only what you choose to see.
and what you choose may destroy you

@Taweret THAT'S IT!

My next album release will be called Into the Mastodon Abyss.

Your words yearn to be the first video on the album.

After all, who am I to deny the sadness, the torrent of guilt, the miserable pining for hope never realized, that temptress always out of reach, which these words symbolize and evoke in the dark heart of man?