I’ve had a hard time going cold turkey with birdsite but it gets easier by the day. I still think of it as the early service that was new and different and exciting and wasn’t being used as a machine for spreading hate. I need to break that habit, but it’s hard.

This morning I drank deeply of that cesspool and was shocked at how horrible it is. Was it always that bad and I was just used to it, or has it taken a recent and sharp turn for the worse? I don’t know. Either way, here we are.

I’ve been committed to Free Radical since its launch, and I want to publicly and explicitly reaffirm this: we’re here for the long haul. The world needs a good, distributed, self-hosted social media network and I think that we’ve found it. I might not have posted a lot lately – life happens – but I’m here for you.

Let’s build something good!