Jack Mottram @jackmottram@mastodon.social
hi all! i have a thing to share with you! my new instance is ready and it is a little different...
toots on this instance are ephemeral; they disappear after a while (between 5 minutes and an hour) depending on the current phase of the moon.
https://ephemeral.glitch.social
something glitchy, something witchy...
feel free to boost
let's
break
this
software!!!
So, it looks like the way to actually see/interact with the mastodon.cloud-based @onethingwell account's toots here on mastodon.social, you have to post a link to a toot, then search for the URL of that toot, then favourite or boost the toot in question.
I *think* that means other mastodon.social folk will now see the toots too, but who knows.
When One Thing Well comes back, I might post links to each post here, like I do on Twitter. (I'm not sure if that's the done thing on Mastodon, though, so I might not!)
I'm beginning to suspect that the 'You can follow them or interact with [this user] if you have an account anywhere in the fediverse' isn't actually true. Here's a link to a @onethingwell toot, just in case that makes it work: https://mastodon.cloud/@onethingwell/190210
@onethingwell Replying to this because I think that might make the One Thing Well account's toots show up in my timeline here. You'd think following an account would be enough, but apparently not. (Unless mastodon.cloud is being weird?)
Just set up an account for One Thing Well - @onethingwell - but it struck me that I haven't seen any bot-ish feed accounts here that autopost links to weblog posts, articles, &c.
Is it against #Mastodon etiquette to do that sort of thing, I wonder?
Here it is, on the offchance one of my five followers wants to give it a whirl: https://github.com/magicalraccoon/tootstream
On the downside, Tootstream shows boosted toots as if they were toots by the booster, so to speak.
I Trying out the Tootstream client - nice and simple compared to the web UI.
Doing what I do every time I sign up for a new social network: finding 'n' following the #mefites
That and wondering if using the same avatar everywhere on the web for the last 11 years is a good thing or a bit weird.
