I started this site back in 2018 when I finally got fed up and left Facebook, and even though I haven’t been posting on it regularly for awhile now I’ve still been using it as as reference for my beer life list and recipes from books I no longer want to keep on my shelf. I felt – and still feel – a lot of pressure in my field to keep up a social media presence so I drifted back to Twitter.

The recent threat of Elon Musk buying Twitter (even though it may never happen) and potentially rolling back its moderation policies made me want to head for the exits. When I started this site up I had looked at Mastodon for awhile and now it’s looking more appealing than ever! I never committed to Mastodon because I was wrestling with whether to pay for a self-hosted instance so I would never have to worry about it going away or joining an existing one. I think I’m coming around to the fact that I better put anything I care about preserving here and just being able to let go of any social content I create elsewhere because all services go away eventually (old enough to have been burned by this WAY too many times) and just join one so I wouldn’t have to pay/maintain it.

So I have to admit I was pretty excited to come across the Indieweb.social Mastodon instance. Even though I’ve only made baby steps on this site, these are my people! I’m now inspired to spruce this place up a little bit and then join up. Feels good to be excited about this site as a project again!