Ok, I have spun up my own single-person Mastodon instance so I guess I’ll follow a migration guide and 🤞 I’ll see y’all on the other side?

(Masto.host makes hosting a Mastodon instance really easy, and is accepting signups again, so if you want to be in control of your own federation destiny, it’s not hard.)

This is my line in the sand: I will pass on having anything to do with social media where my attention and my data are the product.

That’s how Meta and Google and Reddit and all the big corpo-owned sites can afford to subsidize the services they use to “hook” you, the Product.

I have hosted my own email for years. Hubby has been having good success with a paid search engine so I’m gonna switch to them and say bye bye Google, whose results have been getting worse and worse.

I own my attention.

Oh poop.

Things have gone very wild overnight in my part of the Fedi and I need to find a new instance.

Talked with hubby and he does not plan to defederate from Meta by default.

Guess it’s time to spin up a single-person instance for me! Just how I wanted to spend my day.

I have been very happy on mstdn.social and think stux and his team do an amazing job.

But I am seriously considering moving to a smaller instance that is willing to defederate from any server that Meta brings into the Fediverse.

Hubby has been running a small instance for our friend group, and I haven't made an account there yet. But maybe this will be my incentive to move.

(But I don't wanna flood their local feed with all the dev talk I follow 🤔)