it's an island network. basically, a bunch of activitypub sites that are all connected to each other, with allowlisting, instead of denylisting, so that it can't touch the Fediverse we're using specific software with the features we need, patched to remove numbers and global feeds and so on.

it's centrally governed, run via a consensus process that's worked well so far, and the fact that it's not an "anything goes" type of deal like Mastodon means we can do a lot of things they can't. we're working on a cohost-style frontend, a way to embed CSS posts, and a lot of other things.