Bitcoiners: consider using a Content Warning (the CW in the Mastodon web interface) on your price-related toots. That way technologists who don't care about the price don't have to read your text or see your charts. I'll reply to this toot with an example.

Also, it'd be cool if we could agree on a specific keyword for price toots so that people who *really* don't like them can filter them out without having to unfollow people. In Twitter tradition, I suggest the $BTC "cash tag".

Step one for setting up my own Fediverse instance is now complete. Still need to setup a reverse proxy and TLS to actually use it for anything.

Things I learned:

- Was pretty easy (about 30 minutes so far)
- Works fine on a $5 VPS
- Pleroma defaults to 5,000 character toot limit (but >500 won't be relayed to default Mastodons)
- Although turned off by default, you can even access the instance's public timelines over the Gopher protocol (!) https://blog.soykaf.com/post/gopher-support-in-pleroma/

Emergency support email from my VPS provider. Or is it? Notice the X-mailer header is set to a line from the rickrolling song... 🤔

(Seriously, it's legit but it made me laugh.)