@mike Discovered Twitter, poked around there a bit on a psedonym, eventually set up an account there to promote my games writing stuff.  Posted around for a bit, fell semi afoul of censorous administration, and heard that GNU social was a thing.  I'd been on identi.ca before, but I didn't really realize that it was part of a federated network at a time and in retrospect I hear a lot of people say that.  But in any event GNU social was kind of a watershed moment for me in a way (am I using that term correctly?) in that I found some passion for programming again with it.  I got burnt pretty hard with some project drama in the past and said sod it, but the whole idea of the Fediverse captivated me.  And here I am a year later with my own fork of GNU social and a head full of ideas.  I hope I can implement even half of them.