I’m here because it’s eventually going to be the better alternative.

FOSS by its nature, will keep on improving. And proprietary bloatware, by its nature, will only gonna get worse.

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    I’ve only been here a few days, but I genuinely think the Fediverse is the future of social media. It’s not yet polished, but the potential of it all was an epiphany when I finally understood it. I’d forgotten what the real Internet was.

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      It was about two years ago that Matrix finally stuck for me, and while I actually tried using Mastodon, I don’t like following people. Hashtags help, but it’s not the same as a community.

      For the topics I want to engage in, the critical mass is already here.

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      And the users control it not some corporate entity. There will be no ads, no tracking and no shareholders. The revolution will not be televised