@maloki Det visste jag, men det var bara typ jag och fem andra användare när jag kollade senast. 😃
@fenomenologen Man måste börja någonstans, och jo, jag visste att du visste :P Därför jag började följa dig. :)
@fenomenologen och, sen kan det ju inte få medlemmar om ingen vet om att det finns! :P Fattar inte att ingen tootade till mig om den :D
@maloki Jag hittade den via instances.social.
@maloki Nu har jag inte koll på Mastodon alls, men är ni ett svenskt gäng bakom det? Eller är det folk lite överallt, som det brukar bli i sådana här sammanhang?
@fenomenologen Nej, @Gargron sitter i Tyskland, och jag är i Malmö. Andra contributors är lite utspridda
@fenomenologen Hursomhaver, jag föredrar att prata engelska. :) Men ville skriva just den tooten på svenska!
@maloki Super fun - I'm at a US college founded by Swedish immigrants, and Swedish classes are still popular. I'll have to see if there are language learners interested.
@Holly That's a good way of doing it! :)
Step one would be reading and understanding the about/more right? :D
@maloki Hi! my partner's Swedish, but I've yet to (properly) learn any. Would it be annoying/inappropriate If I joined the instance as an means to try and learn Swedish? (I won't harass people for lessons)
@maloki Hvis ikke en domenehai allerede hadde tatt mastodon.no hadde snabeltann.no hatt det navnet i dag.
@thor If you want to you can write me a Norwegian text (that fits in a toot) that I can post to advertise your server. :)
@maloki Oh, thank you, that's very kind of you. Any requirements for how it should be worded?
@maloki Nice. Tack för reklamen! Men vad menar du att du inte föredrar att prata svenska? 🤔 Har precis börjat och slätar fortfarande ut lite rynkor i driftsättningen, men tanken är som sagt att nyttja domänen mastodon.se som jag haft vilandes ett bra tag. Och ska det vara .se så ska det lika väl vara riktat mot svenskar.
@stemid I toot and tweet and post almost exclusively in English.
Mostly because I want other people to be able to understand me as well. But I understand that some Swedish people have this inherent need to speak Swedish (I also took a BA in English last year, so that's probably why I prefer English).
It looks (from the replies I got) that some people were looking to maybe sign up to practice their Sweidsh, that'd be okay with you?
@stemid To Clarify: It was me announcing the existence of the instance, while clarifying that I prefer people to speak English with me :)
@maloki Sure. Goal is to remain a publically available instance for as long as possible. But technically I haven't started promoting the instance yet because there are still some deployment issues I want to sort out. Also to get a few other people on board as sysadmins and do what we can to increase transparency and accessibility of how the instance is being operated.
@stemid Woopsie, I should probably have looked into that first :D
Tell your Swedish friends on Twitter that there's a Swedish instance!
https://twitter.com/kinkymal/status/991737436475723776