We need something that’s small, cheap, plugs into a power outlet (or a PoE port), and lets anyone serve their personal little node of their distributed social network.

I started thinking about that around an implementation that could run under Google’s App Engine free tier, but never completed it.

Everyone moved too fast into the future, and this is perhaps not that good. The whole ASCII and 90s/cyberpunk nostalgia is being a major cue.