Greetings, sundogs.  tfurrows introduced me to circumlunar.space just 
over a week ago, and I have been trying to break through my schedule to 
get started ever since.  After many years on SDF, some research I've been 
doing on the history of public access Unix systems has gotten me 
interested in learning about more shell communities.  Some of the 
language describing the Zaibatsu in particular is exactly what has been 
driving my research -- e.g. "offering text-based asylum to those fleeing 
the commercialisation, bloat and surveillence of the wider net."

Regular phl/blogging about my day to day activities has never been a 
skill of mine, but the Zaibatsu seems like an ideal place to talk through 
some philosophical meanderings.  I am particularly interested in 
understanding how corporate control of the internet and of social and 
communications media impacts culture and society.  I am also interested 
in the role that non-commercial, digital social platforms can offer as an 
alternative.

To me, these things are not just interesting, but important.  I spend some 
effort supporting and making connections between other people who also
find them important.  I am looking forward to getting to know the sundogs 
on circumlunar.space.