@manton Just say you're owned by Facebook. Quick review time with the added bonus of doing whatever you feel like.
Contrary to popular belief, nature does not abhor a vacuum.
99.9999999999999999999958% of the universe is completely empty. Give or take.
And the 0.0000000000000000000042% of the Universe which isn't empty is made of atoms – but atoms themselves are actually 99.9999999996% empty!
So everything is mostly nothing really.
When you look at it that way, it’s easy to justify eating an entire tub of ice cream.
"Can you teach me to change shapes?"
"I wish I could," the shapeshifter said, "I wish everyone could try shapes until they found a few they like."
"A few?"
"Or maybe one. But most of us have a few we are really at home in."
"You're almost always a cat."
"It's one of what I am."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
User uploading 5.7MB MP4 file = 2.38GB of bandwidth in less than 2 minutes as we blast the file out to over 425 federated servers. #JustAdminThings
Reading people arguing about decentralised social web stuff makes me 50-50 want to pick back up my own implementations and make them work, and leave computing forever to hide in a cave.
The compromise between these tensions tends to be go back to my day job / pick up a book / go to the beach / make a sandwich.
@bradenslen @simonwoods @eli Twitter was the same way. Everyone on Twitter spent the first three years talking about Twitter. Eventually the masses came and discussed everything else, but if you look, there are still people talking about Twitter. I notice the same thing with Mastodon and even micro.blog.
Part of it all is also those in the IndieWeb modeling behaviours and examples to others who might also say, "That's interesting. How did you do that? How can I do that?"