Steven L. Johnson

I'm not sure what Mastodon-level I just unlocked, but I successfully managed (I think?) to create a new server and migrate myself to it.

I've still got a lot to figure out. Meanwhile, anyone in the Cville area is welcome to join me at http://cville.online

Next up:
> Get good instructions together for existing Mastodon users to migrate
> Get good instructions together for existing Twitter users to join
> Build out the website landing page
> Figure out the essential moderator tools

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Mastodon hosted on cville.online
Nov 14, 2022 at 12:59amWeb
Show threadSteven L. JohnsonNov 14, 2022

Thank you to R for volunteering to help!

At the moment all is good on the $ side, I'll be sure to pass the hat if that ever changes. 🙂

Show threadChristineNov 14, 2022
@steven Ok. Signed up. Will have to figure out how to migrate or if I should. Might just keep the UK one for my vacation plans.
Show threadWaldo JaquithNov 14, 2022
@steven I intend to join when it's get its legs under it. I have a non-trivial number of followers, and I'm relatively active—I don't want to fill up your Sidekiq queue with a bunch of jobs just as you're getting it set up.
Show threadSteven L. JohnsonNov 14, 2022
@waldoj sounds great, and I look forward to reaching that point
Show threadWaldo JaquithNov 14, 2022
@steven When blogging was new, I wanted to set up something like this for Charlottesville, but for blogs. There was no reasonable way to do that (the closest thing possible, a few years later, was installing Movable Type or WordPress and creating accounts for others, but those wouldn't have been separate blogs), and I eventually settled for running the cvilleblogs.com aggregator. That was fine, and valuable at the time, but you're doing now basically what I wanted to do 20 years ago!
Show threadWaldo JaquithNov 14, 2022
@steven FWIW, you might consider starting to socialize the idea that membership will cost _something,_ via e.g. Patreon, for anybody with the capacity to pay. Even if you don't name a dollar value, folks signing up will understand that their currently-free account is a temporary deal. Setting expectations like that is an important part of a social compact.
Show threadSteven L. JohnsonNov 14, 2022
@waldoj Thanks, that's good advice.
Show threadCogitoErgoBiboNov 14, 2022
@steven @waldoj I know I'll set up a regular contribution when you have it ready to go. And thanks for making the effort!
Show threadJen B 🚲Nov 14, 2022
@steven I will figure out how to move myself over there.