PS: @dansoto's graciously smoothing that speed bump down a little with a NOLA-centric server at poboy.social. May it ease your path to Mastodon. We gotta help each other out, folks; that's what makes a community.
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I've set up my own Mastodon server (poboy.social) primarily to see what all it entails from setup, costs, moderation, etc.
If you're unsure about Mastodon, feel free to join and play around. You can always, easily, move/migrate to other servers later.
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I guess I became aware of Mastodon last year when I was running for office. A fellow Green kept talking it up so I established an account but didn't do much with it. Now I'm finally getting around to learning more about it, and I especially like this part:
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"No one can buy the Fediverse or Mastodon because there is no single thing that could be bought. The Fedi is made up of thousands of independently owned and run servers, which makes it extremely difficult or impossible for anyone to buy the network."
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