Who is this and what does this have to do with self hosting?

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I tend not to recognize your username, because I’m bad at names, but I do always recognize superb owls. Keep it up! (You know, if you want to, I’m not your boss.)

I’m somewhat new, and don’t pay a lot of attention to usernames or use the user notes feature (kind of forgot it existed), so I mostly only recognize particularly distinctive usernames. There are a few I’ll recognize when I see them, but the only one that’s seared into my brain enough to list it offhand is a certain Satanic name.

Shout-out to “Nigel þornberry”

Wait, it did? Do you have a link? All I can find are links to older articles.

I was looking over instances sorted by uptime, saw one that had high uptime, a lot of users, and a literal promise that shit will just work in its name. I did a bit of scoping to see that it was easy to view communities across all instances from SJW and figured, fuck it, seems like as good a choice as any.

It’s not quite the movie/documentary you are looking for, but I have seen https://leavingmaga.org/ spread around.