A Cryptographic Near Miss
"Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other programmers"
It was important for me to do this in a way that maintains control over my own identity. The easy way would have been to create an account on mastodon.social, or one of the private Mastodon instances that friends of mine host. But if I did that, it wouldn’t be fixing the main problem with Twitter: that I don’t own my own identity. In other words, it was important to me that I be @jacob@jacobian.org, not @jacob@some-domain-elon-might-buy.com.
I also very much didn’t want to operate a server.