That's it for me. In one for or another (and I am sure it will grow and evolve in new directions), for better or worse, I'm here for good.

As Big Social Media gobbled up the Web I rather lost the enthusiasm I had during the early days of the Internet (other life events didn't help) but the Fediverse has got the fire back in my belly again.

I’m glad I’m here, but I do hate that most of my tech questions are answered at the other place when I search.

Same :) I escaped during the big modwars exodus. First to Kbin, then when that dissapeared I found Mbin, and when that collapsed I found this Fedia server that seems stable so far. It's a pain to have to make a new profile every time but it's worth it to never have to go back to the evil eye.

Always proud to be here, since the momentous mod and API protest days at the orangered site, but we still have work to be done, including fostering discussion and quality fannish content beyond the bounds of the Western part of our globe.

Oh yeah, we are indeed in a sort of calm-before-a-storm moment regarding the Internet itself, as if the proverbial storm, as Emperor pointed out, is now big tech companies and their corporate cohorts, against a cache of genuine humanity at hand.