Flutterby™! : Thinking about how in the early days

Thinking about how, in the early days of blogging, @davew@mastodon.social was the axis of social discovery as we all hand-coded or wrote software to support ourselves. Sure, he also wrote and distributed blog software, but he fostered a community of a variety of technologies. Thinking specifically of how long Brad and Cam kept hand-coding their sites.

This is something we don't have as long as Federation means spinning up another Mastodon instance.