Sean BonnerFor the morning crowd, here's 1500 words or so with some deeper thoughts on Mastodon after using it this week. http://blog.seanbonner.com/2017/04/05/taking-a-ride-on-mastodon/
blinking line@seanbonner I feel like Mastodon could get really interesting as more instances (especially homebrew ones) get deployed. Similar in a way to a slack instance, with the exception that there's a gateway to a public audience.
Andrew Roach ✅@blinkingline
I want to deploy a personal instance so I can be [email protected] or something like that.
I'm concerned about losing the few followers I have here, when I do that though.
Any thoughts on that?
@ajroach42 I like the idea, and of course, Mastodon supports single user instances, which could be both great (for verification/validation reasons) and a nightmare (making it much more difficult for blocking entire instances to work). I feel like if you want to do this, you should do it sooner rather than later, as you have to have your audience refind you, unless you want to PM them all.
@blinkingline I bought the domain name last night, and I'm setting up the private instance this weekend.
I heard some rumblings from other users about writing a script to automatically DM all your followers that you were at a new instances. I think I'll try that first.
@ajroach42 let me know how it goes. I've considered it myself but as of yet haven't had time to sit down and do it.
@blinkingline It's interesting for sure, but potentially problematic which is why needs to get solved quickly.