So I went on a .social domain buying spree and will likely move to murmurs.social to own my shit and see more on the underpinnings of the protocol.
Setting up a server is non trivial. I have an engineering background, especially in operations so I can stumble through. But probably not worth it for most. But the fact that I can is intriguing. It goes back to my point I wrote about: federated systems apply to how we each can construct our own media as producers.

Winter in LA up against the Chatsworth rocks.

All this activity here and following notifications reminds me heavily of early days on Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, etc.

So there's now a poll on bird site if Musk should stay as CEO, and all the election night Twitterati are all over it. It's the worst of all worlds.

Not sure if this will be the straw, but we’ll see.

Infinitely more entertaining than Twitter drama is the random awesomeness of Twitch “Just Chatting”. Like 400 people watching someone cook. https://www.twitch.tv/luxiegames