Chillaxing on a tropical vacation. Enjoying a glass of wine and the sound of beach waves. Savoring the moment before returning home to colder weather.

Gettin’ paid on Friday and all my bills are already taken care of. For the first time in a long time, I’ll have money to take care of some things that’ve had to fall by the wayside over time.

The longer I spend on the Fediverse, the more I learn about an entirely new corner of the wider open internet. I’ve drifted over in multiple accounts over the years from Lemmy, Mbin, Kbin, Mastodon … I’ve even tried Bluesky (although I know it’s not fully accepted as part of the open fediverse) … and recently have been learning about and diving into Piefed.

And in learning about all of them, I keep discovering that there are dozens more projects that are growing everywhere in the fediverse … Pixelfed, Matrix, Friendica, Peertube, Misskey … and many more!

It’s a hopeful learning experience because I often feel like any one of these platforms feels small and not that many users … but when you add them all up, they number to about 12 - 13 million accounts with billions of status updates … and because it is the fediverse, all of them are able to connect to each other! … it might not seem like much compared to corporate social media but this is what the start of the early social media internet looked like and felt like 20 years ago.

I’m looking forward to what the fediverse will look like in the years to come

Got a package coming. Some time around maybe early to mid November I ordered a CD off of bandcamp and I think it’s finally arriving tomorrow. I’ll be excited to listen to it on my discman since I don’t have class when it’s supposed to arrive because of finals.

Jingle jam!