From the neat article about how Mastodon reacted and copped with the appropriation of it's software by a know extremist site (https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/12/20691957/mastodon-decentralized-social-network-gab-migration-fediverse-app-blocking) which I posted about here last night, I discovered another nice one.

A gem indeed. Well written, thought out, focused, humble on its opinions.

I liked the whole article, and can relate it to my own past experiences in different places (BBSes, forums, DC++ hubs, etc) over the years.

Take a bit of time, turn off the distractions (silence notifications!) -- and delve into it.

"Run Your Own Social" is not only a case for starting and keeping a multitude of smaller servers/instances, but also it explains really well why Small is Beautiful and the way to go for best results in a social network, community building sense.

The author is the administrator of a small mastodon instance, and has been a Fellow on the Mozilla Foundation programme for the past year.

Hope you like, it. @salad_bar_breath , this is the one I mentioned a fw minutes ago.