I recently decided to hop on the fediverse. There was 2 reasons.

  1. I have a main account (persona: developer) and I didn’t want it to mix with my other interest, because I wanted to have a persona that is more chill and shares a bit about life.
  2. I wanted to test out the fediverse/ blogging in a more chill environment. (I made my own blog before this one, yet I post on here more than there)
  3. Also a silly third reason, to see how feasible it is to be purely restricted to the fediverse, and thrive.

So far I have …

  • Created this very blog (actually tested for a month on bearblog, but migrated to self-hosted as I wanted to host my own images)
  • Hoped on Mastodon with out any prior social media related to this persona.
  • Posted a few things.
  • Bridged my mastodon to Bluesky, so I can flex to my friends that I am on their favorite corporate-backed platform while being purely on the Fediverse.
  • Created an anilist.co to track what I watch and read, rather than it being stored in a note on keep notes. Also I get some stats.
  • Started a somewhat-weekly series of posts on the blog where I try posting a random Vocaloid songs.

exploring

I am having so much fun exploring and finding new people, websites and posts that share new things. For example while cliking links I found tamaNOTchi, a virtual pet you can grow through your blog. Here is mines: Taiyo & Miku.

rss

To add to the experience I think rss feeds are really cool. You simply subscribe to the feed and you get updates about what they posted. Also it really cool where I just open my rss reader and it has pulled together a bunch of posts, but unlike the mastodon home timeline it is has more content to read.

future

I can’t wait to see what happens in the future, what new online socializing we will do. I also plan to maybe launching my own group of services for the fediverse; as of now I have planed Mastdon, Pixelfed, an IRC for some fun chat and maybe an IP Radio.

Also maybe we would want socialize using emojis on a pager

I also want to highlight, even though I plan to stay exclusive to the fediverse for as long as possible, I still might one day need to join a corporate-run site in the future, as many things still haven’t yet moved, e.g.: any sort of fandom for anime or music.

Any ways, that’s it. I might write a future post on any updates regarding Me and the Fediverse. Until then c ya.