i guess, deep down, i just don't like centralization in online things

i'm from a time when every little group had a forum or IRC channel, artists all had their own little sites, and we networked via a scattered landscape of chatrooms, BBS, and webrings

there was a brief time when things like facebook and twitter appeared when i was like, "oh, cool. everyone's here now." which quickly turned into "oh no, everyone's here now"

and thanks to the fedi, despite its faults, i don't think i can go back to sites and apps and platforms run by a faceless corporate overlord

@he_xie Here goes! My webcomic is Stanger Eons, it’s a MSPA-inspired webcomic, with animated pages and its own soundtrack

https://strangereons.com/

The most exciting thing to me at this moment isn't just people looking at the #fediverse, but the wider web right now -- blogs, smaller communities.

I've always believed in "the web as the social network." And a protocol like #ActivityPub, the one underlying Mastodon and the rest of the fediverse, has the chance to make that happen.

Unfortunately it's taken one popular network's collapse to get people looking outside of it again. But I think it's opening people up to a ton of new possibilities