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blaine

The constant is us: the communities we nurture, the culture we create. The space we cherish is just a vessel for those. It hasn't always been an easy ride, but I'm delighted that this place has been one of those cherished spaces, and proud of the role I played. ❤️🪺

11 Nov 2022 at 23:11 | Open on mastodon.social
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Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي)

@blaine I call your era "The o_O era."

Thank you for your work — it defined my 20s, and helped me find my own kind in a new, unfamiliar, and otherwised cloistered city (Pittsburgh). Glad to see that the spirit of this early era lives on here, at Masto.

11 Nov 2022 at 23:12 | Open on fosstodon.org
Chris Trottier

@blaine So Blaine, what are you working on nowadays?

11 Nov 2022 at 23:26 | Open on mastodon.social
blaine
Chris Trottier

@blaine @fission That's very interesting. For the past 5 years, I've been thinking that we need new ways to build online identity -- preferably so that it's nomadic.

12 Nov 2022 at 0:24 | Open on mastodon.social
idk replied to Chris
Lord Blood :mastodon:
Leigh Honeywell

@blaine so many feels from this thread just as someone who was a _user_ for 15 years. Thank you for writing it 🙏

12 Nov 2022 at 2:19 | Open on octodon.social
blaine

@hypatia that means a lot - thank you! ❤️🙏

12 Nov 2022 at 2:29 | Open on mastodon.social
Aeva Black :verified:

@blaine this is such a beautiful testament to what could have been — and what will be. I want to think society has learned a lesson from the corruption of capital and the harms of ad-driven design.

Even if only a few of us learned, I’ll cherish that found community.

12 Nov 2022 at 2:38 | Open on tech.lgbt
Alan Langford

@blaine Will it help you get emotional distance from Twitter if I blame you for wrecking IRC?

If not just ignore me. 😂

Either way thanks for fixing it!

12 Nov 2022 at 3:13 | Open on mindly.social
Kit Fenderson-Peters
Kit Fenderson-Peters

@alan @blaine the lag got too bad and you had to wait for the server half the channel was on to time out and rejoin. 🤣

12 Nov 2022 at 5:48 | Open on tech.lgbt
msw117r22

@blaine thanks for this glimpse into history and for caring so deeply about community. Hope for the future! (from a birdsite user since 2008 - 14 years! it was a good run)

12 Nov 2022 at 7:02 | Open on mstdn.social
lesighlepurr
Polychrome :clockworkheart:
@blaine were your early attempts to make a federated twitter involved with Diaspora / Identi.ca / GNU Social in some way?

Those were the precursors for our current ActivityPub based Fediverse, which Mastodon is a part of.
12 Nov 2022 at 20:19 | Open on poly.cybre.city
Baessando por ai!

@blaine what a amazing thread. Thank you for it, your work and vison 🥰

18 Nov 2022 at 17:14 | Open on mastodon.social
Elahn Danee :verified:
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