Bracken M

@Bracken
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https://bracken.fun
Looking for a masto instance with sustainability and community safety plans for a long term home. :)
anybody saying you shouldn't defederate different ideas is an idiot. you should defederate anybody you want. defederate TERFs. defederate nazis. defederate annoying instances. defederate someone because it would be a funny joke. just like in real life you have the freedom to connect with whoever you want and no obligation to spend your time on shitheads and losers.

Okay so this week I'm going to plan getting an SaaS offering of Mastodon together.

Offerings will skew towards larger instances.

If you're interested in getting an instance setup from me, send me an email at:

[email protected]

Just saw Jagged Little Pill, the Alanis Morissette musical. It's amazing and I love it :)
It's going to take a while to recover, but: you live; you learn.

One of the things that's not really obvious about Cloud Island is that I spent a long time before I launched on legal prep (what are my risks and how do I manage them?) and financial prep (can this even pay to support itself?)

It's an important, and overlooked, part of #MastoAdmins #MastoAdmin

@anildash I haven't seen you talk about Mario Kart in a long time.

Them: "Mastodon is hard to use."
Me: _gets started easily_
#coops

Them: "The #fediverse is fragmented - hard to find anyone."
Me: _easily finds many folks here I know or enjoy_
👋

Them: "It's just white male tech nerds"
Me: _discovers fairly robust presence of non-white, non-male folks_
✊

Them: "It's set up so it's antiviral"
Me: _sees more interest in my thoughts here than ever on the birdsite_
🙃

Them: "Local servers are like isolated islands."
Me: _finds a canoe to explore archipelago_
🛶

As we sometimes collectively wait for refreshes across the mastoverse, just remember how fondly we think of the ol' fail whale. It's all good, scaling sucks. :)
I'm just waiting until my shared hosting provider has a "run mastodon" button like they do for WordPress. I hate managing servers and updates, etc. but love running my own things.
This type of app certainly does _not_ lend itself to shared hosting infrastructure, but I'm sure someone will solve that particular flavor of scaling problem for me eventually. :)
@leoebfolsom @emilyriederer I can't get replies to load at the moment so may be repeating, but that was a Geocities concept!
I was in a sunset strip music related neighborhood, haha. :)
You could literally kinda walk/click through and check out the neighbor's sites... Now I'm getting excited again, there is totally that spirit of potential in your masto instance idea I think.
@CoralineAda there are some WordPress plugins that tie to activity pub, and I've been trying to imagine how I can overlap blog and general personal website aspects into a personal social feed somehow.
Things like host something myself as long term stuff, be part of various mastodon communities, and not annoy folks with poor cross posting activities.
How do my personal things fit into potentially flakey distributed social web? Just trying to have fun again basically :)