After reactivating the Mastodon account I provisioned in 2019 over at mstdn.social, I started noticing that that instance, well managed and moderated as it is, is a larger one, getting bigger all the time, and it was starting to throw errors.
They say to build the fediverse out and not up, so I started exploring smaller instances that seemed in line with my values and interests. Quickly, I found (and joined) three really nice servers: indieweb.local, tilde.zone, and xoxo.zone. There are tens of thousands of users on indieweb, a couple of thousand on tilde, and just several hundred on xoxo!
I wanted to test migration, so I made the least dramatic leap and migrated from mstdn to indieweb, where I am now based for at least the next thirty days (I’m xian there, and not mediajunkie for once). After that I may consider stepping down to a smaller instance yet.
Oh, and if I don’t see you before next week, have a great holiday!
but have you tried generally just kind of slowing down, exhaling, taking stock, wrapping things up, and accepting the open secret about most of the working world that doesn’t have a seasonal spike between mid-November and the end of the year, that around now people are taking their foot off the productivity gas pedal and don’t expect to kick off new things until the second of January at the earliest?
As I move my online conversational focus to the more open federated spaces (rumors are Tumblr will be plugging in next), I am spending more of my time checking (and debating the cultural norms of) Mastodon, and connecting to folks there, and while I still feel compelled to check Twitter via its website (I removed the mobile app) more for mentions and DMs now than for news or information, I am noticing that I get in, notice what a sewer it is or how all the timeline is full of self-referential stuff about a King Troll and his sycophantic hangers-on and wannabes, and close the tab right quick.
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After reactivating the Mastodon account I provisioned in 2019 over at mstdn.social, I started noticing that that instance, well managed and moderated as it is, is a larger one, getting bigger all the time, and it was starting to throw errors.
They say to build the fediverse out and not up, so I started exploring smaller instances that seemed in line with my values and interests. Quickly, I found (and joined) three really nice servers: indieweb.local, tilde.zone, and xoxo.zone. There are tens of thousands of users on indieweb, a couple of thousand on tilde, and just several hundred on xoxo!
I wanted to test migration, so I made the least dramatic leap and migrated from mstdn to indieweb, where I am now based for at least the next thirty days (I’m xian there, and not mediajunkie for once). After that I may consider stepping down to a smaller instance yet.
Oh, and if I don’t see you before next week, have a great holiday!
but have you tried generally just kind of slowing down, exhaling, taking stock, wrapping things up, and accepting the open secret about most of the working world that doesn’t have a seasonal spike between mid-November and the end of the year, that around now people are taking their foot off the productivity gas pedal and don’t expect to kick off new things until the second of January at the earliest?
As I move my online conversational focus to the more open federated spaces (rumors are Tumblr will be plugging in next), I am spending more of my time checking (and debating the cultural norms of) Mastodon, and connecting to folks there, and while I still feel compelled to check Twitter via its website (I removed the mobile app) more for mentions and DMs now than for news or information, I am noticing that I get in, notice what a sewer it is or how all the timeline is full of self-referential stuff about a King Troll and his sycophantic hangers-on and wannabes, and close the tab right quick.
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