Putting the network on the fediverse

Most writers rent their audience. You build a following on a platform, the platform changes the rules, and one morning the people who chose to hear from you can't anymore. You never owned the connection. You were renting it, and the landlord moved.

So I'm wiring this site to the fediverse directly.

What that means

The fediverse is the open social web: Mastodon and everything that speaks the same language. The point is that you can follow an account on one server from any other server, with no central owner sitting in the middle. I'm making this site itself one of those accounts. Follow it from wherever you already are, and new posts land in your feed.

No middleman platform. No algorithm deciding whether you see it. The site I own becomes the thing you follow.

If someone chooses to hear from you, that line should be yours, not a platform's to cut.

The slower, better road

This was more work than slapping a "follow me over there" button on the page. Self-hosting the plumbing means I own it end to end, which is the entire reason to bother. Same principle as everything else here: own the thing, keep it small, don't hand the keys to anyone who can lock you out later.

The handle goes live the day the domain points home. The work is already done and waiting.