AOL Keyword: phone weasel🌹so get this. you know those bots that follow you? maybe you've seen one. that is how smaller instances get a hold of the full federated timeline. i'm currently working on my own instance and have discovered that i have to make one of those and have it randomly follow people. (not from scratch, i just have to set an existing thing up). wild right
i'm pretty excited to get this instance going. i want to set up full text search so i can actually find old toots and offer email forwarding with the rad domain i managed to get. i'd say what it is now because i have open registrations and plan to keep them that way unless i get overwhelmed, but i want to work out the kinks first
it sucks that i can't easily import all my old toots. feels like account migration could really be improved