The Fediverse is only worth something if it isn’t just about the Fediverse.

That’s why I make it a point to document the things I love and care about here—games, music, tech, retro finds, fitness logs, all of it. Because at the end of the day, these are the human things that give the network any meaning.

If all we ever talk about is ActivityPub specs, moderation drama, or which server just forked which, then the Fediverse becomes a closed loop—a tech cult mumbling to itself. That’s not culture. That’s maintenance.

The real value is when people bring their lives here. When you scroll and see what others are passionate about—what they’re creating, playing, collecting, cooking, lifting, or rediscovering. That’s when it stops being “just another platform” and starts being an archive of human experience.

So yeah, I post my stuff. Not because I think the world desperately needs another hot take on cassette tapes or Sega Saturn imports. But because documenting what we care about is what makes this place feel alive.

Because in the end, it’s not about the network. It’s about the people who make it worth networking.

LaserDisc looks like a giant CD, but don’t let that fool you—it’s not digital.

The picture on those discs is actually analog video, recorded as a frequency-modulated signal just like broadcast TV or VHS. Instead of storing pixels, the pits and lands on the disc encode continuous voltage changes. When you pop it into a player, the machine reads that FM signal and spits out plain old composite video—the exact same yellow RCA connection you’d get from a VCR.

Since it’s analog, LaserDisc doesn’t have a neat pixel count. There’s no “480p” baked in. Instead, sharpness depends on bandwidth, which works out to around 425 horizontal lines on NTSC discs. That’s miles ahead of VHS’s muddy 240, but nowhere near DVD’s clean digital precision. Which is why LaserDisc looks sharper and steadier than tape, yet still has those analog quirks—dot crawl, color bleed, and a bit of noise if you look closely.

Audio tells the same story. Early discs carried nothing but analog stereo FM tracks, while later ones layered in digital PCM for CD-quality sound. So you’d get crisp audio on top of video that was still fundamentally analog.

That’s what makes LaserDisc such an oddball—it’s futuristic optical tech on the outside, but inside, it’s pure broadcast-era television.

Can’t fool my kid.

I put on some music at a low volume. She hears it—comes in to have a listen. And now we’re hanging out.