@[email protected] And for those Mastodonites (what's the word for that anyway?) who aren't into #hamradio, here's a plug:

As Stewart Brand (of The WELL and the "Whole Earth Catalog") has pointed out for many years, ham radio is the ultimate in decentralized, free communication. There's no "middleman" -- you talk directly to other people -- unless you volutarily set up a mesh or other network... beginning to sound a bit like Mastodon, isn't it?