me: the constitution says I have the right to assemble

Ikea clerk: you have to buy it first

OK this is interesting. Mozilla starting a Mastodon instance next year...

"Now is the time, as we’re living through the consequences of 20 years of centralized, corporate-controlled social media, with a small oligopoly of large tech firms tightening their grip on the public square."

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/