A Fediverse Backup?

I have been thinking about having a backup account on the Fediverse, but Iโ€™m struggling with which service to use.

Weโ€™ve been having some challenges over on Fosstodon recently. Between availability issues thanks to large influxes of users, technology problems and DDoS attacks, itโ€™s been a fun few months.

Problem is, when Fosstodon is down, I have no presence on the Fediverse, so we canโ€™t inform people as to whatโ€™s going on. With that in mind, Iโ€™d like to setup an alternate account on the Fedi for me to use. Plus, it also allows me to post about my other hobbies outside of tech; like fish keeping, motorbikes, home steading etc.

My default was to open another Mastodon server with the amazing Masto.host, but I quickly realised that if they have a technology issue, it could take down both my instances.

I needed to decentralise. (see what I did there? ๐Ÿ˜‰)

I tried a self-hosted Akkoma server for a few days, but the headaches of managing a server became apparent, so Iโ€™ve killed that too. So what was I to do? Wellโ€ฆ

Micro.blog

Since writing about how confusing Micro.blog is recently, Iโ€™ve decided to make a longer term go of it. And since Micro.blog now supports the Fediverse, it seemed like a potential contender. Itโ€™s not been without itโ€™s frustrations - I stand by my comments that itโ€™s extremely confusing to use, but Iโ€™m getting there with it.

Thereโ€™s also the cross-posting service they have, which may be useful in the future. I dunno. So I think for now Iโ€™m going to stick with Micro.blog as my other place on the Fediverse, so if you wanna follow me over there, please feel free. Hereโ€™s some links:

Micro.blog uses RSS as a first-class citizen too (thatโ€™s really important to me) so if you prefer to just follow my microblog via RSS, you can do that too. Links are in the footer of my microblog site.

As I get more comfortable with Micro.blog, Iโ€™ll write a more in-depth opinion piece on whether my position on their service has changed. Until then, Iโ€™ll continue chugging along on both. Micro.blog and Fosstodon.

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