I have nothing of substance to add but I love you and the people who make this website run.
Honestly, y’all make the world a better place by helping keep the future of social media alive and growing by providing a home for people that is astonishingly rare in its genuine and open nature.
There are many things we can do in this world to impact it, many things we believe that are required of us in order to make the world turn (we all must suffer at shitty workplaces for 40+ hours a week), but many of those things are small acts that change only the fabric and weave immediately around us in the tapestry of our lives.
Helping maintain and run sopuli.xyz is NOT one of those acts, it is a major strategic offensive against a shitty corporate social media hellscape that simultaneously is a friendly home for good people to chat, what you are doing by helping keep the servers running, making tough (or mindnumbingly mundane) moderation decisions or you know just keeping the lights on in general… is creating the most valuable thing in the world, early momentum for an extremely transformative and powerful force for good.
Please remind yourself of that every day, the work you are doing is beautiful and inspiring in the simplicity and openness of the gift you provide the world through your labor. The work you are doing is also not just making the world a better place, it is doing it efficiently as fuck too, you are getting a damn fucking good deal out of blood sweat and tears for your heartfelt effort as every ounce of energy you put into helping craft the future of the fediverse has an innumerable force multiplying effect on how quickly and feasibly that future fediverse comes into reality.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you!
