Woke up this morning hearing about #Mastodon being blocked on the bird app. And people unable to share their links on Twitter to follow them on their servers.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/twitter-suspends-mastodon-account-1234648316/

Twitter Bans Mastodon and Blocks Links to Mastodon Servers

The Twitter account encouraging users to join rival social network Mastodon has been suspended

Rolling Stone
@mooseygeek Yea, getting less and less happy with how he's handling Twitter. Even though I respect we're both on the spectrum (IIRC), I don't respect the choices they're doing at Twitter.
@kensonplays Yeah, it seems its a whirlwind of cluster crap all over the place. We'll see what happens I guess.
@mooseygeek We're actually in the process of building our own Mastodon instance for reptile lovers. hehe
@kensonplays Nice...I was looking into making one too but I'm going to look into it start of the year. I was hitting a roadblock looking into it but I guess when I dont have work and some time...we'll see. Good luck and congrats to when you get it up and running.
@mooseygeek DigitalOcean has a "one-click install" for the things you need to set it up, though my friend Cupara said mailgun didn't work for him and might need to select a different SMTP server.
@kensonplays thats good to know. I think that's one of the walls i hit trying to figure it out.
@mooseygeek 15-30/mo to start, not including the domain.