- 2024
- Aug
- 11
I’ve added a mastodon feed to the blog.
I’ve had commenting here off for some time, mostly due to the spam problem. Flatpress is a great system, but all comment platforms, unless heavily moderated, are spam magnets.
However, I wanted a way to communicate with people that may be reading this blog. I’ve had my LinkedIn profile connected for some time, but that’s not an accessible platform for most. Mastodon, however, is.
Mastodon is one of the twitter-likes that came out of the old Gnu Social era. It’s exactly what you think it is, a feed full of short posts by multiple people, and you can follow and interact with anyone that’s a part of the “fediverse,” a loose-linked conglomeration of various servers and people.
That’s not to say Mastodon doesn’t have it’s own issues, the originator of the system has some hangups that prevented conversations linked to other servers because he didn’t like the content, and it certainly has a very political leaning if you dive into the main feed. That’s not what I’m here for - I simply want to post my weird electronics and give people a way to go “Where did you get that thing?”
If you’d like, check it out: https://mastodon.social/@wereboar - not everything here has been mirrored there, but going forward - it will be.
Thanks for hanging out with this little pig, and I’ll see you at the hamfest!