When I was very young, perhaps four or five, I can remember imagining that the world was a flat slab of rock, and that the sky was a hemispherical dome suspended over it, and which somehow always managed to be centered on our car as it drove over the flat …

It's been good to see people from Twitter coming onto the Fediverse, or reviving the accounts which they started in 2018, but I'm also getting worn out. Though not nearly as worn out as the admins and moderators, who have been doing an amazing job.

Hugh's essay captures a lot …

Since there's been a big influx from Twitter, here's an updated and shorter version of a Mastodon primer I wrote back in 2018.

For more detail on how federation works, see Elilla's Futuristic Mastodon introduction for 2021.

Get off mastodon.social

There's mastodon.social, which is run by the lead …

It's amazing that Mark Zuckerberg has managed to make so much money off all of us pretending to keep in touch with our friends. I realised about a month ago that although I still have an account there, for the ostensible reason that it feels like an important way to …