Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐<p>I'd also like to remind people that <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> and the <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> really aren't anything new. The concepts of distributed communication between independent servers behind it are as old as <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/Usenet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Usenet</span></a>, and then some.</p><p>I've said before, it really would probably have made better sense to simply concentrate development efforts on <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/INNd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>INNd</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/newsreader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>newsreader</span></a> clients. We used to have really great clients, but they fell by the wayside, and the <a href="https://mstdn.plus/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> is just reinventing the wheel with a Twittier UI.</p>