Social Media

Branching Out!

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I’ve decided on a whim to check out Bluesky. I’ll still post over on Mastodon, but I figured I’d give it a go since it seems fairly similar. It’s currently federated just like the fediverse, and you can even bridge your Bluesky account to Mastodon. But for now I figure I’ll keep and use both, just to see how things work. Mastodon has people there that I follow that aren’t on Bluesky, and vice versa.

Next I’ll have to see about showcasing my profile to my blog, like what I already do with Mastodon. That will have to wait for a night when I have free time to work on the blog. I still need to rethink the site layout in general… among other things.

Sipping Nog and Watching St Elmo’s Dumpster Fire

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Got all Xmas gifts in my possession! Now I’m just waiting for a few birthday presents and then I won’t have to worry about gifting for a couple of months! I’ll need the additional free time to start looking into building a Mastodon server of my own. It’ll be nice to have my own instance, especially with more and more people joining it everyday to evade St Elmo’s Dumpster Fire. My feed has been set ablaze by the mass bannings over at the birdshite. I’ve been sitting back with my popcorn and watching the world burn.

I’m glad I never that place. I won’t have to worry about missing it to the same extent other people do.

The Evil Plotting Begins… Again

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I’ve been using Mastodon at least once a day, and so far it’s been working out pretty well other than the occasional server hiccups and downtime. All the more reason for me to build my own Mastodon instance, my new year’s resolution. I plan to build it on AlmaLinux. It would solve these downtime issues and I would free up resources for the current instance I currently reside in. I’m sure there will be some issues, there always seems to be with this stuff. But it’ll be worth it just for my own customization! 😛

Social Butterflying

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I’ve been keeping tabs on Mastodon for the last week, and so far I’ve been enjoying it! They rolled out an update yesterday that allows you to translate a foreign post (or toot! as they call it) with the press of a button! Now I can understand what people around the world are saying, whether it be someone from Japan wanting to chill, or if it’s someone in Mexico questioning if potatoes are more fattening than bread. You do have the option of only allowing certain languages, but I’m fine with all of them active. It’s interesting to see perspectives from around the world, and it shows me there’s a bigger picture.

I’m still planning on building my own instance. It will not be open to the public to join, but those who are allowed will still be seen by the other instances if they so choose. I’ve been seeing instances get temp blocked for having too many asshats join up just to be asshats until the admins get their instances under control.

In the meantime I have been experimenting with a new plugin that will allow me to automatically cross post to Mastodon. I’ve only used it once, it seems to work for now. The only thing it doesn’t post is an image from a blog post, but other than that it’ seems to work right out of the box. I might look more into other plugins once I get my instance up and running, give the devs time to update their plugins.

Social Sunday: Mastodon

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Most people who know me are aware of my stance on social media. I’ve basically hated the idea since MySpace, and have always preferred self hosted options. One of my friends put together a small mastodon test server recently, and that gave me a good enough excuse to play around! Sometime in the not too distant future (this will have to be a weekend project) I will be looking into building one with my current domain behind it, but until then you can find me here. I plan to put smaller posts there that don’t really belong here, plus syndicating some of my content and other weird ideas. Feel free to follow me there if you use Mastodon!