I'd just like to interject for a moment.

[noah@mastodon.despise.computer]

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Mastodon, is in fact, GNU/Mastodon, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Mastodon.

[noah@mastodon.despise.computer]

i'm actually curious how many of my followers understand this joke

[wffl@im-in.space]

@noah is there anything deeper than the usual gnu+linux quote?

[noah@mastodon.despise.computer]

@wffl mastodon emerged as a competitor to an earlier federated platform called gnu social which laid some of the building blocks for the modern fediverse

the joke of course is to take this contribution and then say "ah yes mastodon is really just a small component of a larger gnu system"