I'm perusing reddit occasionally, I dunno, out of habit, but also curiosity as to how this all plays out. But the magic is gone there, and wow, growing here very quickly. I'm here to stay, on lemmy.world or wherever in the fediverse. I'm on a mastodon instance but it's kinda sleepy, but hanging in there.

I used BBSs in the early 80s, even dialed into Ward & Randy's BBS in Chicago with an acoustic coupler modem... 300 bits/sec. Fedi stuff is more akin to that than the overly-managed corporate shit.

"Federation" instantly made sense to me. I feel sorry for (lol) younger people who've only known corporate, centralized, soc media stuff.

I suspect things are gonna get messy; communities are, or will be, hard to find, scattered, the activityPub relationships can be very complex, you can't really tell who sees yout posts, or what's included in a thread... the code isn't there. But it will get there.

Fuck corporate seamlessness. I'll take the anarchic chaos of user written code and organic change. The idea that we can, or even that we "should", be able to "see everything" is a dumb 20th century idea. The world is a huge and complicated place, us dumb little organisms can't even understand everthing that goes on in our physically local neighborhood. How could we? What a delusion.

There's always more to seek and see. It's fkn great.