Hello #Fediverse and Happy New Year!
I'd like to mark the start of 2025 with the first message from my self-hosted instance. You may already know me as @_elena@mastodon.social. Well, now I also run my own #ActivityPub microblogging server, thanks to the magic of #YunoHost and #GoToSocial (and #Phanpy, which I'm using to compose this).
I registered this domain – aseachange.com – a looooong time ago but never did anything with it. It was the very first domain name I ever bought, even before securing elenarossini.com (!!!). It was so long ago, but I remember I was inspired by Beck's album Sea Change. seachange[dot]com was taken, so I grabbed Aseachange.
I absolutely love its meaning of profound transformation and I think it's PERFECT for my self-hosted #Fediverse instance and what it represents: independence, empowerment and digital sovereignty.
Ever since setting it up, I've been feeling joyful and hopeful. Everytime I look at myself in the mirror, I think: I'm in control of my own social media platform. And it feels SOOO GOOD.
What do I have in store for 2025? I plan to use this account to post messages about #selfhosting, learning #Linux, privacy and digital sovereignty.
I will also keep posting from my Mastodon account because you don't give a Lamborghini to someone who just passed their driver's license. I barely know what I'm doing here, so I feel a lot safer (for now) keeping my mastodon.social account as well... In case anything goes wrong here. Better safe than sorry!
So, this is my #Introduction and if you've read as far as here I just want to thank the Fediverse for being so amazing and allowing me to connect with people on my own terms. And thank you Fedi people for being so generous and supportive with your superb advice and kind words.
This is a really magical, special place.
Happy New Year, everyone!
Good morning Fedi friends!
So yesterday I posted the first public message from my self-hosted instance, powered by #GoToSocial (see above).
✨ The good 😊
I was able to export the list of accounts I follow on Mastodon and import them very quickly and easily into the new instance. Ditto for my Mastodon block list. The whole thing took less than 2 minutes.
☔️ The puzzling* 🤔
*I'm not gonna call it "the bad" since I'm LOVING GtS so far
I tagged my Mastodon handle but it didn't turn into a hyperlink and thus I didn't get the mention/notification on Mastodon. I also included the URLs of a couple of my websites (without the https://) and they were rendered in the post as regular text, not hyperlinks.
So, let's try again – for the purposes of testing:
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@_elenaElena Rossini ⁂
– https://elenarossini.com (this time I included the https)
If you're curious about #selfhosting, #YunoHost and/or #GoToSocial, feel free to reach out and ask Qs.
Wishing you all a lovely day!
If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://aseachange.com/users/elena/statuses/01JGKNYKQR1H0J17G10EN588MS on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)