jarrod
jarrod

🔗 I moved from my self hosted Mastodon instance to a micro.blog account // Rach Smith

I recently learnt that micro.blog accounts can federate with Mastodon, so I decided to try it. It only costs $5 USD/month and creates no sysadmin/ops work for me. I am technically storing my data with “someone else”, which is what I was trying to avoid by running my instance, but the company seems like a small group of people trying to make a product people like, and as someone who works in a small group of people who trying to make a product people like… that appeals to me.

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@kev That’s where I discovered @rachsmith too! Her site is incredible and I, obviously, like her writing as well.

Social.lol seems like it works for a lot of people. I’ve been interested, but not seriously tempted, by it. It’s a cool product and you get so much for so little cost. Discovery might not be the same as on other platforms, but I’m still finding 2-3 new people to follow every week via replies, blog About pages, and the Discover page.

I used to miss the likes and reposts, but now I really don’t. They were so distracting over on Threads that I turned off those notifications! Maybe I’ve drunk the Kool-Aid, but I’m super happy with MB as a social network. I’m so glad there are different ways for the same people to interact together.

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