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I use the Fediverse for social media, at this point, exclusively. Unlike Threads and Instagram, which are owned by Meta (Facebook), X(itter) owned by Elon Musk and a number of investors from around the world like the Saudi royal family, and BlueSky, started by Twitter, broken away from Twitter and now owned by a number of cryptocurrency companies and run by a CEO whose only main experience is doing technology work for cryptocurrencies (read, not running anything), the Fediverse is truly a global town square--for better or worse.

Think of it as social media with all the usual assholes but none of the fascist owners.

For political hot takes follow me on Mastodon (technically historians.social)

For photography, follow me on pixelfed.social

The cool thing about the fediverse is, you can create one account on whatever instance you want, say the popular mastodon.social and follow both of the accounts above from that one instance. That probably doesn't make sense unless you experience it and it is why reporters love to whine that the fediverse is confusing. But would you go into Miami's Westchester neighborhood (where I live) if you were looking for Manhattan's hottest club in New York City? Of course not. But you can find all both Westchester, Miami and Manhattan, New York City on a single map or call someone on the phone in both places from your cell phone, right? If you can figure that out, you can figure out the fediverse.

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