Okay, if anything goes wrong in moving house you can find me at @alisoncroggon
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Alison Croggon
@alisoncroggon
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I write words. Poet, novelist, critic, theatre writer. Arts and culture editor The Saturday Paper. She/her. Living on unceded Yalukit-Willam Country.
Giovanni TisoI work for this magazine that I love and today is the last day of our subscriberthon drive, with prizes to be won including regional ones for New Zealand. So I wrote a thing about why people should subscribe. https://overland.org.au/2022/11/on-the-last-day-of-subscriberthon-our-amazing-online-editor-gives-you-one-last-very-good-reason-to-subscribe/
I'm seriously thinking of moving to another instance so be prepared for a couple of days of me being confused....
BLACK SPRING is my go at #Gothic - a rewrite of Wuthering Heights with added elements drawn from Ismael Kadare's Broken April and the rest - magic, really grim wizards, the horror of patriarchy - coming from me.
I wrote about the process of writing the book for Readings in 2012: https://www.readings.com.au/news/the-story-of-my-book-black-spring-by-alison-croggon
The cover below is for the Australian edition - it also came out in the US and UK with a slightly more romantic cover - and remains my favourite.
The Story of my Book: Black Spring by Alison Croggon
Alison Croggon talks about the process of writing her new Young Adult novel, It’s hard to know when a book begins. Perhaps Black Spring began when I was six years old and running over the bone-strewn turf of the Cornish moors with my sisters. I remember the boundless feeling of…
I'm going to attempt a regular #FridayBook post. Starting with old books of mine but also including books I'm reading. It's been ages since I did any sort of blogging...but microblogging might work?
If any Freudians can explain why Gaddafi kept turning up in full dress uniform in my dreams last night, give me a hoy
Sarah Winnicki@alisoncroggon @emilyherring I started with a profile on mastodon.social and I liked it a lot there, folks were lovely! Last week it was struggling with new members, but that’s to be expected!
I moved to a new server because many of the folks I wanted to connect with were there— this account is primarily for my science work, this server is full to the brim with scientists in my field, it seemed like a great way to meet new folks and I don’t regret moving, but I’d’ve been happy staying too!
TomI've moved to a much smaller instance. What I'm noticing:
1. My local timeline is a very different experience, with just a couple of dozen active users focused on fewer different things.
2. It's a "Hometown" (slightly different software) so there is local-only posting as well.
3. No issues with instance slowness or uptime due to being more niche.
4. You feel a bit cooler because you're not on the most "basic" instance.
That's it …
Creatrix Tiara@alisoncroggon Independent smaller instances can often have more engaged moderation/admin (so you can get support more directly), aren't quite as overloaded, and can be more robust with blocking problematic instances. If you're interested in specific topics, themes, or activities, an instance specific to that could be a great way to build community (especially via the Local feed, which IIRC mastodon.social doesn't have?)
So I’ve defaulted to mastodon.social because that’s the server I joined in 2018. And moving seems quite transparent and straightforward. And yet, should I? What are the pros and cons of moving to another server?