Pop Loser Vol. 6, No. 6 / Dumb and strange in the Fediverse of madness.

VOL 6, NO 6 ★ Dumb and strange in the Fediverse of madness. / I used to sorta understand how the internet worked but now I mostly don’t. Last weekend, I got cocky, made some rash decisions, clicked a few things in the wrong order, clicked another thing before fully absorbing its warning message (a warning that made pretty clear that I definitely should not have clicked on that thing at all, but could have made it even more clear with some stern disappoint-mom messaging perhaps rendered in a large, blinky red font), and, ultimately, sent all of my Mastodon followers into the nuclear heat-death of the Fediverse’s largest sun for no good goddamned reason at all. Do you remember that wonderful window of time when all of our social media hooked up with all of our other social media, birthing new social media that existed only to aggregate all of our social media in one place that was also, itself, social media? Okay, it was a bit silly and literally drove us all insane, but at least it was…