I'm in Love with the Fediverse

Back in May of this year, I returned to the Mastodon account I'd opened when Twitter went to shit the hands of Elon Musk. I don't remember the exact date. The years around the COVID pandemic are fuzzy. I hadn't really used it before, and this time I decided to start following people other than the dead accounts from that first week, the angry signups that eventually turned into abandoned accounts. I followed some people from Latin America I came across, along with some of the authors of blogs I'd been reading since I got back into blogging, about six months earlier. That was enough to get a live feed going. Those first follows, with their reposts and likes, led me to more people, and suddenly my feed was really interesting. The lack of a revenue-driven algorithm This is the best part of the whole Fediverse thing. Nothing's shoved down your throat endlessly. Your feed is chronological and consists only of posts from people you follow. If you don't want to see likes and/or reposts, you…