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Community Moderation, The Bad Place, and Doing the Work Yourself
I’m kind of a weirdo. I have an account on numerous ActivityPub instances ranging from Mastodon, to Misskey, to a rather new one that replaces Tumblr, called Wafrn. And I’m writing this post today, because of something that I was made aware of via that new Tumblr replacement, AP connected instance: People are still sharing…
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Strings of Strangeness, a Mastodon Odyssey
This has sort of been a thing since I first relaunched an instance on the ActivityPub network in my efforts to govern my own space, and also get away from bad administration and moderation on past instances (hackers.town to name one, forever banned for telling a bully to shut his face, literally). Basically, I don’t…
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Online!
To start my vacation from work, and my switch from position to position, building to building, I spent about seven total hours setting up my own Mastodon instance. An instance you can now view, right here. I first launched an instance through masto.host, but ultimately decided that I prefer full control. Not just full control…