I run an international mail based art trade, check it out I your interested!

@Myrrh That's interesting, any link to it?

Field Study is an international art exchange that creates a few different collective works annually. Long-standing and worth checking out: http://daviddellafiora.blogspot.com/

how can we shove a letter in that ol' postbox?

but do we shove a letter in or wait for one to appear? So many questions.

something something, let's make our own memefactory social media

internet is serious business

I have been poking around on Indieweb recently too and it's very technical. Maybe I have low standards for groups but I don't think memes are necessary, there's enough of them on the broader web / social media sites / circulating in private discords. Sure, a bit of extra humor might go a way to attracting members but if the core isn't right, memes aren't going to make me stick around.

immediately adding a meme hoard to the to do list for my site

My opinion on the Indieweb movement is that it's way too technical. But there really aren't many avenues for less tech savvy people to set up websites. I don't think I would have had the time to learn all the html and css I needed to make this barely functional site if not for the pandemic.

That last paragraph is pure poetry. "Like a Devonian sea creature that had just evolved jaws." Hahaha! As for the type, I imagine that they are just shore crabs no? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinus_maenas

Those crabs aren't found in my part of the world. The mystery continues...

Hmmm...the Pacific equivalent might be a species of Hemigrapsus, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemigrapsus_takanoi or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemigrapsus_sanguineus ...But I'm not sure, so I will keep looking...

You've made the modern human condition sound so metal haha