Dan BlickensderferWelcome to @clintlalonde
Clint Lalonde (he/him)@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.
Robin DeRosa@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 @clintlalonde Yes, that's exactly right (where the "larger platform" is the federated "plumbing" that lets each instance (users) talk to each other). And there are private instances too.