I'm SJ Zero. I've been on the Internet since dial-up, and I've watched the slow erosion of our freedom online.
The freedom to say things that are unpopular. The freedom to say things that are wrong. The freedom to say things that are right. We've seen the most powerful people on the planet working to take these away "for our own protection"
Seeing how bad it's gotten, I decided to start building platforms I control. I've got a searx instance, a peertube instance, a pleroma instance, a nextcloud, and obviously a lotide instance. I've been really impressed with the ecosystems set up by different developers.