“My journey into #decentralized #socialmedia began not at the musk of an eel, but in 2009, grounded in my understanding of value-defining network dynamics. My first encounter with the technology that would later be formalized as #ActivityPub (the protocol underpinning today’s “Fediverse”) happened with a click on a link to a site called Identi.ca. What captivated me was not merely a new website, but a new #paradigm.”