I’m a long-time contributor to the space, and have been here for over 15 years. I was on the Fediverse when it was literally one or two platforms, and I witnessed the whole thing grow and evolve. I’ve seen the entire thing take shape, and change with every subsequent wave of platform, user migration, and major pivot.

I also ran community management for one of the large-scale early projects here.

A huge motivating factor of mine has been to write about a nascent and evolving space that I’m passionate about, often because no one else has been writing about it. I grew my own publication, We Distribute, out of it, and it’s my responsibility to report on different aspects of what happens in the space. Sometimes, the news is ugly.

My personal blog at my domain is unrelated to that, and is more just random brain droppings based on whenever I feel like putting out personal thoughts based on my experiences. There’s nothing malicious about that.

Not sure I’m seeing what’s fucked up about this. It’s not like they’re using people’s comments as their own work. They link back to this thread. It just seems like a place where they can dump a bunch of their own thoughts related to a topic without posting it here since it’s not necessarily in line with this thread’s topic anymore. And I thought it was an interesting read and appreciated them posting it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯