Notices by G. Willow Wilson (gwillow@mastodon.social)

Much as I have hope for mastodon/federation, the idea that you are now at the whim of thousands of little Elons (who can block whole instances at will and leave you wondering why you suddenly can't find a bunch of people) is not encouraging.

Now I have to figure out how to reconnect with all my dice.camp people from scratch. Not good!

If anything, my experiences in the changing social media landscape have cemented in my mind the fact that social media is a public utility and needs to be run as a public utility. Not as a series of opaque libertarian fiefdoms.