@benpate Federation is literally the only reason I have an account here. I'd never had, nor wanted to be on social media. After twatter shit the bed, I followed the few accounts I lurked to Mastodon. Although not one of those posters lasted more than a couple months, it gave me time to learn how this works. I signed up in order to add support, because I see this as the last bastion of free communication when TSHTF. There's a whole lot of ugly coming, and we need clear info to deal with it.
@DukeDuke I agree with so much of this. So what do we *do* about it? Beyond making a safe space for ourselves and close friends, what do we *do* to build a real, free community that’s not bound to the clockwork orange device that is our corporate media?
Because 10 million people scattered around the world isn’t going to cut it. Not to make real change. Not by a long shot.
We’d need 5-10x that just to affect American elections.
