@mayintoronto digging into backups, i find a post from january of 2017:

> So I stumbled in here the other day from a link in a MetaFilter thread. The UI is pretty slick. I suppose I should figure out what's actually going on under the hood.

i was ambivalent about it all for a long time. i think social media as usually constituted is a bad idea on a bunch of fronts. but these days there's a set of people i'd really miss if i left here.