meghnad 
My Mastodon experiment begins now.
Till Monday morning, I'm off Twitter and will be using Mastodon instead. Let's see how this goes!
If it goes well, I don't mind having a 2 day/week Mastodon only rule.
The thing with Birdsite is that I've put in a lot of effort on that platform and gained some following. Took years to do it.
Now, it's really hard to just let go of it all and move to another platform to do it all over again. Frankly, it's a bit terrifying.
Also goes to show how much I've started to depend on Birdsite. Sigh.
But, I have learnt my lesson: Never EVER entangle your professional life with a platform that you have no control over.
I often ask myself how it has come to a point where my self-worth is defined by Birdsite. Well, here we are.
Maybe I'll be able to extract myself, maybe not. We shall see.
Richa Singh@Memeghnad hence self hosted blogs. That’s the only medium where you are the owner. I have been screaming this since forever. Any social media platform including this is someone else’s property
bharatvarma 
Can't run your own server, can you? For most people?
So "self hosted blogs" how?
@bharatvarma @Memeghnad self hosted blogs like websites. Say you take up space at go daddy etc and host your site on them. This way you own (or rather rent) a portion of the server and you build your own site/property there.