the one thing that separates us from threads or facebook or whatever corporate social media is not technical prowess, logged hours coding, or number of commits.

it's that they're corporate suckholes and we're not. maybe it's good to be small and irrelevant. according to their standards anyway.

it's the people and the culture that hold a place together, and in the commons in a place like the fedi, we can say we have proved it, doing it the open and non-siloed way.