A lot of folks are dunking on Mozilla for dropping its Fediverse instance, including me, but I think it really speaks to how difficult it is to run a social media node that isn't awful.
As I see the NextDOortion awfulness play out, and Facebook trying to cram content that isn't my friends down my throat, it's a reminder that social connection is hard to make profitable, and most vendors are horrendously exploitive to make it a business...
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