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The most widely used ActivityPub server. Independently run instances federate, so accounts on different servers can follow each other without a central platform.
I advocate for decentralized media and operate the Toot Works Mastodon instance.
From the blog
Articles from JWS News and DEV that relate to Mastodon.
In October 2022, I spun up Toot Works. Toot Works is a Mastodon instance that federates with other Mastodon, Pixelfed, WordPress, and GoToSocial instances and services like Threads and Bridgy Fed. Two years ago, the goal was for the instance to host no more than 100 users. The f…
In June, I wrote about creating a private fediverse instance. For JWS Social, I am running GoToSocial hosted on K&T Host. GoToSocial supports decentralized social networking by adhering to ActivityPub, a protocol that enables interoperability across platforms like Mastodon, Flip…
Back during “funemployment“, I created JWS Social. It is a GoToSocial instance that I am hosting with K&T Host. I already have a Mastodon instance (Toot Works) that I am hosting with Masto.host but there are 83 users on there and I wanted something that was just mine…
Back in 2022, I created “Good Morning, Milwaukee!“. It is a bot that posts every day at 6 am with the weather, the times for sunrise and sunset, and a photo from around the city. When I first wrote it, I wrote it in Node and put it up on Pipedream. Lately, there have…
Before Twitter collapsed, a lot of my online identity was connected to my account on the service. A lot of my content was also trapped inside of silos that were controlled by corporations. I attempted in 2018 to reduce my dependency on things like Twitter and Instagram by using…
Last year, I created my own Mastodon instance, started using Pixelfed, and even made it possible to follow this blog from the fediverse. The big benefit of this ecosystem over something like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc is that every service that is part of the fediverse can b…
From GoToSocial
Short posts about Mastodon, matched by topic hashtags.
