@Dan_Blick thanks. Feels very Tweetdeck-ish right now. You know anyone who is running their own instance of this?

@clintlalonde I'm working to get one setup this week. I've also been experimenting with talking to mastodon.social programmatically.

@Dan_Blick @clintlalonde So if you make an "instance" it still somehow talks to the larger platform? I am trying so hard to wrap my small bookish brain around this.

@actualham @Dan_Blick Exactly. Esentially, you could host your own instance of Mastodon (like you have your own website) and it would connect to other instances of Mastodon. potential best of both worlds - you get to own your own data AND get the network effects of distributed network. That's the theory anyway.

@clintlalonde @actualham @Dan_Blick Thinking about that too and wondering if we could try this out to support online discussion between learners. Are you going to give this a go? Or do we know yet if anyone has given it a try?