@davidrevoy A powerful image that, this account is my very first foray into any kind of 'social media'.

I'm a long-time, grey-haired IT consultant so no luddite, but have always steered clear of the all-powerful corporate behemoths and yearned for the 'good old days' when thousands of individual subject-specific forums were independently run by moderators for zero renumeration.

The open/decentralised nature of ActivityPub and particularly the Mastodon implementation is the thing that's brought me... cautiously... tentatively... into the fold.

Here's hoping this or something like it can be the way forward, and the Zuckerbergs of this world will eventually lose their shrivelled-claw-like grip on how the world communicates.