2022-11-07                         from the editor of ~insom
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   I'm doing okay. A couple of good weeks at work has cheered
   me a lot, although it makes me keenly aware how much work
   effects my mood. That is a bad thing, to be clear.

   New people are discovering Fedi because of (waves hands) The
   Current Events. I find a lot of people's comments about
   Mastodon/Fediverse bely a real bias towards the "winner
   takes all" mentality that VC-driven software scene has
   promoted. In no place is this more clear than in the
   HackerNews comments section.

   I try not to get annoyed because HN is kind of _the place_
   for people who think that way. One thing that _is_ annoying
   is people saying how what we're doing on Fedi "won't work"
   despite the fact that we're about 5 years into this
   experiment and it's doing okay, thanks. Doesn't mean it will
   work forever, but neither will Twitter. Sure works for now
   though.

   I have been involved in groups on the Internet deciding to
   move from one place to another (because the old one sucks)
   since ... I have been in groups on the Internet. Moving from
   irc.iol.ie to irc.indigo.ie, then the irc.phishy.net. From
   Twitter to App.net, from Twitter to Mastodon, from Tumblr to
   Ello, from Facebook to Google+.

   Some of these things don't exist anymore but I've found that
   attempts to wholesale move away from _anything_ and then
   wait for its sudden implosion aren't grounded in the real
   world. Even when failure does come, it's slow and steady and
   sad and rarely sudden and cathartic.

   Tumblr is still going, even after losing enormous amounts of
   people over its adult content ban. Ello still exists.
   Mastodon doesn't need to win; people can go back to Twitter
   if they miss something that it has. Hopefully some of those
   people stay on both services. Maybe some of them move. Maybe
   it's not for some people: that's okay.

   (Heck, I still have a Flickr Pro account, even though the
   world moved to Instagram and 500px, although there is the
   vibe of an abandoned mall to the place.)