An apology:
I was pretty hasrh on @rw's piece here: https://robek.world/featured/what-is-gnu-social-and-is-mastodon-social-a-twitter-clone/
There are some inaccuracies, and I feel they should be corrected, but we also just don't have much history at all written and instead I should focus on getting more and correct history written rather then tearing down one of the rare attempts. I'm sorry for that, and I'll focus on trying to encourage more work in that space. It's hard to do, given the little amount documented.