A “Not Twitter Foundation” that runs an installation of an Open Source implementation of a scalable micro blogging platform is very appealing to me.

How/why could this not be a big Mastodon instance itself? Because it inherently communicates with replica servers? I think there are easily achievable improvements to be made to Mastodon/social networks via ActivityPub, but don’t see the author’s argument as compelling for any reason. A “market-based” solution could just as easily be “pay $5/yr for your own auto-maintained, single-tenant mastodon server”

Cool that it’s open source hardware but this keyboard looks like a nightmare to type on. Like one of those mac chiclet keyboards

Thriftbooks!