I Don’t Remember the Last Time I Checked Mastodon
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My relationship with Mastodon has been somewhat tumultuous over the years, until I eventually stepped down from Fosstodon around 18 months ago. I have to say, it was the right decision. I don't miss running Fosstodon one bit.
But since then, I've found myself less and less engaged in the Fediverse. Mainly because there's so much outrage over there. It's so tiring.
The majority of my timeline is fun, but the outraged minority have ruined for me. To the point where I don't want to be there, and I'm much happier having not checked the timeline for the last month or so.
I'm not off the Fedi, however. What I've done is build features into this site that allow me to automatically cross-post to the Fedi. I even have a custom page that only I can access, which allows me to create a note as simply as posting to Mastodon:
As well as this, I've implemented Webmentions in Pure Comments as of earlier this month. So I can reply to any comments from afar too.
It's nice. I can see still engage with people on the Fedi, all while not having to put up with the checking the timelines.
What Now?
I have around 12,000 followers on my Mastodon account. Because Mastodon really doesn't scale well, those 12k followers take a fair amount of Fosstodon's resources. Which I don't think is fair if I'm not really using the service (I do donate every month).
So I'm thinking about spinning up a single user GoToSocial instance that I can live on. That way I'm not using any of Fosstodon's resources and I can do my own thing, on my own server.
I own thefedi.uk and thefediverse.uk so something like @kev@thefedi.uk would be quite cool, I think. I could even provide accounts to friends in the future then too. On the other hand, I'm not sure I want the headache of managing a federated server again.
Maybe I should stop overthinking it and just stay on Fosstodon. What would you do in my position?
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