EDIT: #PleaseBoost to help with federation.  EDIT 2: thank you for all of the support, everyone—seriously.

#Introduction #IntroductionPost #NewHere #NewInstance

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve"… or something.

Hello, or hello again—if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything nice.

If you think you know me by another name… I cannot argue with that… not even a little bit.

New here, and by that I mean that this is a brand new instance.

Single user GoToSocial instance, self-hosted on my own hardware; this is not my first.  It's just like that scene from the Matrix with the Architect: we just keep torching it and starting over, and we're starting to get pretty damned good at torching it.

I've had a WriteFreely instance before, and I think I might have another one here in the near future, honestly.

GED in 2011 at 17; no qualifications otherwise, at least literally on paper.

No human children; cat dad, though.

NixOS diehard on desktop/server.  The host machine for the VM for this server, as well as the VM itself, both run NixOS and always will.  Currently using Niri on the host machine and loving it.  GrapheneOS diehard on mobile.

Love projects, especially the kind that are never finished because they're never supposed to be.

Grew up in Oregon and moved to New Mexico with my family when they did.

I ride a unicycle.  Trying to learn violin.  These things don't necessarily have anything to do with each other, I hope.

ADHD and Tourette Syndrome, both professionally diagnosed for the first time when I was 20-something.

My dad passed away last October.

#ADHD #Cinemastodon #FediLab #FilmReview #GoToSocial #Memes #MovieReview #Movies #NM #NewMexico #Niri #NixOS #SelfHosted #TouretteSyndrome #Tourettes #Unicycle #WriteFreely
@plutarch
I setup a gotosocial instance on my server, but don't really use it. I keep meaning to.
@xinit

I like it a lot better than Mastodon, personally.  Using it, I mean; I've never self-hosted Mastodon, or tried to, but I've had accounts on a total of three Mastodon servers before I started self-hosting (one of which was Glitchsoc, which is a fork, and definitely had more features than mainline Mastodon).  There are so many things missing from Mastodon as compared to GTS.  Things like being able to hide your following/follower lists from the public while still being able to see them yourself (again, Glitchsoc has this hack; regular Mastodon doesn't even give you the option, at all).  Also, Markdown; I feel like that should be standard everywhere at this point.  Then there are features that AFAIK only exist on GTS, like public and unlisted, public only, or no posts at all being shown on your profile… I don't know why you would want to hide literally everything, but you can.  At some point after 0.20.3 (offhand, I'm not sure when exactly), they've apparently added the ability to hide all of your boosts from your profile, which is awesome.  GTS seems, to me, like it's been designed since day 1 around the features that real people, who are actually using it, actually want.  That's how it should be.