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Katy Swain

@evan Says the person who took fediverse 1.0 to VC funders and turned it into "Enterprise Social Software".

web.archive.org/web/2012061212

Then the money ran out, as did you.

You could be telling that story over and over again as a cautionary tale, instead of kidding on that you're some kind of flawless elder statesman.