Explaining the “Fediverse,” in case you’re sick of oligarchs controlling your social media.

I realize that in 2025, starting any conversation with the topic “The Fediverse” is akin to starting any conversation with the topic “NFT’s” or “cryptocurrency” or asking if there’s a new printing of The Watchtower. But bear with me on this. Of late, I’ve joined up with the social platform Mastodon, and I’m also sharing…

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It’s chuckthewriter@pixelfed.social and don’t you forget it.

I’m still on the fence with Instagram. At one point I had an Instagram account, and somehow it got hacked. I cleaned up all the hacking, and a year or so later, the account was shut down for some unspecified claim of nebulous origin (I suspect some MAGA chud had a problem with me and…

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