@J12t I was never able to participate in corporate digital social media. Being a Free Software type, I had no interest in building my digital social network on a centralized social media site that had *my network* as a *product* to exploit.

Then the #fediverse came along, and I was able to start building my *own* digital social network out of the people I actually know & want to follow, *without* corporate influence shaping my network.

Social networks can be *social* now, instead of products.