And now, it’s not just news-producing sites; a while ago, I tried to look for the dimensions for the toilet and bath sections for a typical Filipino home, and lo and behold, two identical GAI cobblin’ sites appeared on top of the search results!

'O, eto, si JWPH 'to mula sa balsang-kawayan ng kbin.social. Kamusta na ba ang lahat, pati na rin ang mga niluluto ninyo sa hapunan?

Reading siguro, yaong mayroon kang latest edition ng World Book encyclopedia, ta’s isa pang shelf na puno ng mga fave mong aklat at graphic novel.

Grabe… mukhang abot-Baguio ang simoy ng hangin rito ngayong umaga.

And Sweater Month too? How delightfully festive of a side hobby, regardless of climate location.

Moon grids sa ating nakatira na sa bayang Fediverse rito! Ano nang binabalak o kasalukuyang niluluto’t hinahanda ninyo para sa hapunan?

Do they whistle around and call friends when in battle?

Here, too. My feed’s all about architecture, random ramblings, things of nature, music, and of course, Fediverse stuff.

I feel it pleasant to just curate that raftbox of mine to whatever interests I actively do have at the moment, without the vitriolic banter and doomscrolling most other social media platforms have harbored as of late.

Reading all of this in depth while silently sipping across my leaf-green cup of hot 3-in-1 coffee in the morning, I’m now seeing almost the whole picture with the new TenForward online hub-raft and the reasons for its founding. ValSub, as evidenced by the screenshots and credible anecdotes by others experiencing the ire at the supposed mod overreach on that particular instance, has come off to me as bespoke of a too passionate fan enthusiast, much like that of Dream SMP of a few years prior, while exhibiting multiple instances of verified victim complex. Even though the original intent of said instance is to have a fair ground for all to discuss and meme their watched Star Trek content, including fanworks (Happy International Fanworks Day, after all!) of every type.

In the end, as a fellow recent Fediversian myself, I take sympathy towards not only you, Stamets, but also to the countless others who have been fed up with the sudden debauchery of such a rogue, highly-agitated mod person for weeks on end.
May the Federation prosper, even through understandable disagreements and hardships, as well as triumphs and camaderie, both large and small.

Although I’m not in any way aware or alive when that was happening back then - that “.com bubble” blast I think? - I surmise that was a real crash-and-burn phenomenon, McKinstry’s “CR6” internet show being one of its casualties, despite its significance in online emergent media history.