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Discussion on: Have you moved from Twitter to Mastodon for social media?

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Andrew Brown πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

I made one a few years ago in a technology-focused instance only to see that the owner shut it down due to health issues so I had to create a new account on @mstdn.social

A few instances have been spinning up more related to my cloud space but I'm wary of the owners so I get in my head if that if I'm going to do anything that I'll need to spin up my own instance and then I guess federate into others?

Honestly, I think I'm just going to wander the vast social media landscape and just drop things here and there lol.

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Andrew Brown πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

mstdn.social is one of the larger server and its ran by a single person...

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Moving servers for me its not about the content its about the followers.
So looks like when you move it "redirects" folks, but I would imagine they need to refollow you? I have to keep investigating

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Nick Taylor

Yeah, for that I'm not positive.

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Andrew Brown πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

@nickytonline That feed finder was useful.

Linode has a single click install:
youtube.com/watch?v=d1mzUYzoolg

There is a bunch of managed hosting providers to run your own:
docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-you...

I think what I'm going to do is just turn my brain off and use a managed provider, set the server to be private or invite only while I learn this stuff.

Buy yeah, maybe instead of paying $8 USD (1000 USD) a month on Twitter Blue its should just go to my own managed instance.