You joke but if you think the aim isn’t bigger… I wouldn’t be surprised if astroturfed discourse around decentralised platforms being unsafe because they can’t be “moderated” surfaces in the next few years (months?). Mastodon have already had to explain why they literally cannot add age verification in the UK. They’ll just ban the whole concept if they can’t get the control. The free web is being reigned in.

Luxury. I had to get up in the morning at ten o’clock at night half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad and our mother would kill us and dance about on our graves singing Hallelujah.