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If this message is seen by anyone other than just myself, my snac2 instance (powered by the proverbial and figurative energy of a 68k Macintosh, if you will) has successfully made the not all too far move from Germany to Norway, as I continue to consolidate my self-hosted services and clean up the convoluted, multi-VPS and literal-hosted-from-home mess that I've created into something mildly more palatable.

And if not, well, then this was me shouting into the proverbial big void. Win-win either way?


Hello, 👋

I’m Austin. I’m a researcher & academic who stumbled his way into writing for a living.

I really resonated with @bobdoto’s description of writing without a system: each time I wrote something, it felt like a miracle, & I was unsure if I could do it again.

I’m about a month into using a to write and manage my thoughts and research & I’m enjoying it.

I’m interested in learning about other people’s processes for writing & thinking!

"I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. I never expected a lot of things. But there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage... It's the internet I was promised in 1996. It only took thirty years and the complete collapse of American journalism to get here."

https://privacysafe.social/@matdevdug@c.im

Fediverse

Do you know an organisation (big or small) that might be interested in joining Mastodon and the wider Fediverse? Here's a guide that tries to answer questions they might have about it:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/tips-for-organisations-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse

If any organisations want to ask further questions or want help joining, please let me know!

I've tried to cover all the basics in relation to organisations, let me know if I've missed something or if you have other feedback 🙂

My experience of the :

Year 1 (2023):
It feels a little lonely as 99% of my friends stayed on Big Tech platforms.

Year 2 (2024):
I start a blog - - to explain the fediverse to "normies"... and I make a lot of new (techie) friends.

Year 3 (2025):
My techie friends encourage me to start self-hosting with ... and I do! (GoToSocial, PeerTube, NextCloud...) I LOVE it.

Year 4 (2026):
I plan to buy a Heltec to try out off-grid mesh radio communication 💁‍♀️

Now that I have self-hosted Forgejo actions building this blog and transferring it to the host, almost everything is great. The one pebble in the shoe of my transition has been the tags.

I refactored them recently to take out the spaces and wordcase them in both views and pages to make it more friendly to pushing to the fediverse. The only problem with that is that in the process of Bridgy Fed ... bridging to the fed all the tags would get congolomerated into one great big concatenated mess. I have been lamenting this.

Tonight I really dug down into my Eleventy templates. I realized that the "p-category" class was assigned to a div and that div wrapped all the tags. It was not being assigned one by one but only one was assigned and it encompassed all of them. So maybe garbage in garbage out?

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Congratulations to @teamtoot on today's launch of their new Tŵt app!

"Guided by the words of Dewi Sant, we have proven that by doing the little things, we can achieve something truly significant."

https://croeso.toot.wales/en/a-present-for-wales-ein-cyfraniad-i-gymru/

I saw the cover of the current @linuxmagazine “Streaming in the Fediverse”, and I’m a bit disappointed at the actual coverage of music services and the community of musicians - it is primarily a feature on *Navidrome* (which is great, but not federated) with a mention of Funkwhale. It could have covered Bandwagon, Mirlo, The Indie Beat Radio & TV, PeerTube and more. I’d be happy to submit a piece on this at some point if the editors are interested…!

A magazine cover for "Linux Magazine," Issue 304 from March 2026. The cover features bold text about "Streaming in the Fediverse," emphasizing freedom with Navidrome and Funkwhale. Below, there are headlines for various other articles.”