@alex Why not deep lore that I only read about while making the posts for my one blog. Pawoo, that jester larper/bootlicker creating a instance that's siloed off, the GNU Social and Mastodon flamewar mixed in with Quitter being essentially GNU Social's Soapbox-FE, and whatnot.

Of course that time period also was when the fediverse had a really bad reputation. Dabbling in the fedi at that time was like those guys I know who dabbled in bitcoin and wished they saved it back in the day, except there's no money lost, just wishing I had different friends.