I almost jumped yesterday when Jim Groom and the Reclaim Hosting spun up a Mastodon instance focused on DS 106 at https://social.ds106.us/about. I’ve followed a large part of that community for over a decade, but didn’t have the bandwidth.
This morning I noticed that Boris Mann and gang have spun up a Mastodon instance around the idea of tools for thought which dovetails with their efforts at Tools for Thought Rocks! So I’m going to bite there to see what happens and have the experience of a smaller specific and focused timeline to watch.
I still have to figure out how to best dovetail the experience into my own IndieWeb site given potential limitations with backfeed of POSSE posts from Brid.gy. Perhaps I’ll just use it as read only to start and simply federate my content there? We’ll see. It’s solely an experiment, but some of those few already there are people I see regularly. No guarantees on how much I’ll post there, but if it’s your favorite reader/platform you can find me at @chrisaldrich@toolsforthought.rocks. Most likely anything I post to it will be more relevant to thinking.
As ever, following me directly via my own site is the best way to ensure you’re getting the best of everything.
I’ve been enjoying the idea of the local timeline so much and indieweb.social’s is a nice medium-speed stream. I may start joining other instances for a variety of community-specific experiences.
It’d be fun to find #book and #music focused communities to hang out with.
I’ve also been thinking of spinning up my own instance, but it may lose some of the magic when discovery via community isn’t there.
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Saturday, Nov 12 at 16:55
@chrisaldrich I’m curious why you didn’t go for indieweb.social? But smaller, focused instances do rock! I get a lot of use out of the local feed.