My general vibe for #xoxofest is apparently spiraling at mortality and the amnesiac cycle of all of us barnacle-ing resistant little communities onto a series of sinking ships
Being a little self involved baby sorry
Fucking hate how in Portland everyone asks if you're ok when you're crying I miss New York
Grateful for the masks required policy at #xoxofest because now no one can see me lip syncing to the entire Carly Rae Jepsen album playing before the talks begin
A year ago today we launched 404 Media.
Thanks to the overwhelming support of our subscribers, we're very proud and humbled to say that our business and company is sustainable and stable, and more scoops, investigations, stunts, etc are coming in year 2
https://www.404media.co/what-we-learned-in-our-first-year-of-404-media/
All the suggestions were good but hear me out: instead of that, I go to a botanical garden in the neighborhood William Gibson supposedly lives in on the off chance of a sighting
Since January, @kissane and I have been researching governance on Mastodon and Hometown servers of about 80-2000 people. That research is now available!!!
Blog post: https://write.as/fediversalist-papers/releasing-our-findings
Paper: https://fediverse-governance.github.io/
Special thanks to the participants we interviewed, you all were so great.