As twitter continues its tumultuous path under Musk's leadership, many people have been moving to federated social networks such as mastodon or other ActivityPub federated sites. Like the web itself, this allows users on different servers to interact and i...

It used to annoy me when people talked about going online as something separate from the "real world." I always thought of the Internet as part of the real world, and as a college student in the early 90s and a graduate student in the late 90s, the Interne...