Yesterday was my 1st #Anniversary here, and what a year it has been. Yes, it happens that I joined on the innaugural #JohnMastodonDay, but that was all luck. I had decided weeks earlier that TwiXer was no longer the place for me, but it took me a couple weeks to decide where to go (in retrospect it was obvious, but at the time it felt like a gamble, and I wasn't interested in a "shotgun approach"). It was important to me to find a flourishing #InfoSec community, because over the years I have found this sort of community to be one of the best places for up-to-the-minute news about the industry that is my passion.
I joined with grand ideas about posting more, and being more involved in conversations, but that hasn't been over the first year, and frankly most of my posting is still over at #LinkedIn (you can find me through my bio if you're at all interested). But the reading...the reading has been exceptional, I appreciate the insights, the availability of perspectives across the world, across gender, and across roles and backgrounds here - and I'm still just talking about #CyberSecurity content and people.
I need to thank @jerry for taking on the challenge of making a place like this exist for us. I have another ID in the Fediverse (I'm a big believer of separating church and state) and I have the unique experience of seeing what a #Great instance like #InfosecExchange operates like, vs one that just sorta kinda exists, and it is night and day. Even with that said, thank you to all the instance admins out there for giving others a place on this platform as well.
Finally, thanks to all of you posting your thoughts, findings, and news. You're why I'm here, and it is your insights that make this community the special thing it really is. Keep being the brilliant, fantastic, broken, healing, bold, scared, and excellent people you are. I'll try to keep up.
John came by yesterday to drop off a couple of bags from the local library book sale, so now I am sorting through cookbooks and finding shelf space for the ones I want to keep. Yes, one of the cookbooks is devoted exclusively to pancakes.
Gestern war #JohnMastodonTag. Der ist entstanden, weil ein Redakteur sich im Zuge einer Account-Sperrung des Twitter-Accounts "joinmastodon" durch Elon Musk verlesen hatte. Er schrieb in seinem Artikel, dass Elon Musk auch "John Mastodon" gesperrt hätte, den Gründer des nach ihm benannten dezentralen Netzwerks. Unter den Hashtags #JohnMastodon oder #JohnMastodonDay gibt es nicht nur im Fediverse lustige Memes darüber.
#JohnMastodon's great talents became apparent at an early age, when he casually explained the link between general relativity and quantum mechanics at the Montreal Science Fair in 1968. So beautiful was his solution that none of the baffled scientists wrote it down that day. When urged later to repeat the formula's, John solemnly stated: "Repetition is not my purpose in life" and to this day holds firm to that promise.
Happy #JohnMastodonDay to all the faithful. He will come and will be the final judgment, only federated networks free of advertising and algorithms will be saved.
…and #johnmastodon whispered, "My precious child, I love you and will never defederate you, never, ever, during your trials and threadings. When you saw only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you." #johnmastodonday