I have moved my Mastodon account. I am now at Fosstodon.
The admins running the Emacs.ch server have decided to shut it down. They gave everyone 90 days notice.
One reason I chose Fosstodon is because of laziness. The instance has a tech focus (although on many instances people do tend to post things that are not the main topic). The Emacs.ch admin posted an invite link, so I decided to use it.
Another thing I like is they have a blog where they write about their finances (blog here, Github source here).
I think one way to combat the corporate control of the internet is to start paying for things that we have used for free; email and social media are two examples. I wish that Mastodon servers gave detailed financial statements. Maybe not audited statements, but tell people how much you need, how much you spent, and how much you took in. There are some admins who manages multiple servers (like this one has 3 Mastodon, 1 PeerTube and 2 Pixelfed services), but do not have different donation accounts for each server. I do not want to be freeloader, but I do not to be a chump either. Why should I pay for a Pixelfed server? I don’t even know what Pixelfed is.
This post was created in Emacs with Org Mode and Love. You’re welcome. And stop looking at your stupid phone all the time.
Image from ‘Beati in Apocalipsin libri duodecim’, aka Emilianense Codex, a 10th-century manuscript of ‘Commentary on the Apocalypse‘, written in the 8th century by Beatus of Liébana; manuscript housed at the National Library of Spain, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.