Back in November, the DEV Team announced that we had begun exploring the Fediverse:
With the caveat that…
We look forward to expanding our presence into new and exciting servers in the future — for now, this is our home for toots.
The time for that expansion has come! Beginning today, we’ll be Tooting from @ThePracticalDev@Fosstodon.org. 🥳🎉
Because this is such a novel and exciting time in the social media sphere, and we here at DEV are particularly interested in the independent web as well as the potential of open source software, we wanted to let you in on how and why this decision was made.
We started on Mastodon.Social for a few reasons:
- @ben had already made us an account there back in 2017. Thanks Ben!
- At the time, it was the fastest-growing and best-known Mastodon server.
- It was a topic-neutral place to start as we observed the growth of the wider Fediverse.
- We knew that we’d have the opportunity to switch servers fairly easily and at any time.
Here’s why we chose Fosstodon.org as our new landing spot:
- Our OSS roots run deep! We’re eager to contribute to the conversation in a space that’s oriented around open source and its potential.
- At ~49k active users (at the time of this posting), Fosstodon is a large server, but still much smaller than Mastodon.Social (~213k active users). We’re hopeful that being part of a smaller, more focused community will help us reach our community members more effectively.
- Fosstodon is primarily an Anglophone server, and our social accounts are run in English.
We're still cross-posting our Twitter feed to Mastodon using moa.party for now. We recommend checking it out if you're looking for a simple solution to expand your presence across platforms.
Ok, your turn: how did you decide where to make your home in the Fediverse? Have you considered moving?
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I have never been a part of social media, but Mastodon appealed to me with the per-topic servers. I am @webJose@dotnet.social.
José Pablo Ramírez Vargas (@webJose@dotnet.social) - dotnet.social
49 Posts, 33 Following, 36 Followers · Senior Backend Software Developer Have worked for many big ones: HP, P&G, Brightstar, IBM, Intel. Two-time nominee for Microsoft MVP in C# back when I moderated the Spanish MSDN Forums. My passion is .Net/C#, but I do enjoy pretty much anything about programming. Lately I've been involved a bit into some front-end programming and some NodeJS backend too. Daddy to #wjconfig I write code with discipline. Oh, I love Age of Empires! #AoE :dotnet: :javascript: :typescript:
I selected this server because my primary language and passion is C#/.Net.
Sounds like an excellent choice! Have you enjoyed it so far?
It's been nice. One of my followers is Nicholas Blumhardt (@nblumhardt@hachyderm.io), the author of nothing less than Serilog, Seq and Autofac. This guy is one of my heroes.
So cool 🤩
Toooooooooot 😎
Toot toot!
I can relate. I moved from Mastodon.Social to TechHub.Social and may yet move again to dotnet or hackyderm. We shall see!
Thankfully Mastodon has aliasing and migrations that make that fairly easy.
Totally! I've been impressed with how smoothly the migration process has gone. Kinda makes you wonder why other social media sites haven't figured that out yet 😜
I’m so happy to have Dev on Mastodon. I chose to stick with Hachyderm as my server of choice. The moderation and development team are amazing and their values line up great with creating a safe place for people.
I am @j3dev@hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io/@j3dev
I'm also on Hachyderm. Great community. Lots of techies there, too.
hachyderm.io/@mr_eking
For those who are interested, Scott Hanselman (hachyderm.io/@shanselman) had Kris Nóva (hachyderm.io/@nova) on his podcast where they talked about how she set up and maintains the Hachyderm instance. 43 minutes.
I joined the Hachyderm.io Mastodon server because I saw that Molly White was on there and she always seemed like someone who had good taste. Picking an instance felt urgent because it was the week that Twitter lost about 90% of it's staff and there was speculation that Twitter might crash.
Despite it being a total shot in the dark, I'm very happy on Hachyderm: it feels like one of the more general purpose tech instances.
I also drop my profile here if any devs want to follow me. I toot sometimes 😁
Thømas Bnt :thinking_coffee: (@thomasbnt@mstdn.io) - Mastodon
36 Posts, 104 Following, 115 Followers · Je suis un développeur web français et collectionneur de Mugs. Je contribue activement à l'Open Source et je suis modérateur bénévole sur dev.to. Mes principaux sujets #A11y #WebDev #Series #Linux #RaspberryPi #OpenSource #DevCommunity
I chose Fosstodon for similar reasons. So far it's been a good experience.
It would now be good to have a place in my DEV profile to put my Mastodon account reference. Similarly it would be good to have code repository links supported for things other than GitHub e.g. GitLab in my case.
Toot! Toot! Great choice of instance DEV!
If folks are looking for me you can search for
@nick@iamdeveloper.comon whatever instance you're on.It'll redirect and find me here.
Nick Taylor (@nickytonline@toot.cafe) - Toot Café
320 Posts, 272 Following, 395 Followers · Staff Engineer, Ecosystem (frameworks) @ Netlify he/him 👨💻 Volunteers at @CollabLab & virtualcoffee.io
I also chose toot.cafe back when the main reason for doing so was, "hey that sounds like a friendly name" :)
Greetings from @reinhart@bots.reinhart1010.id! Well I decided to set up a new server/instance for three main reasons:
Oh yeah I created my own instance one month prior to Musk’s acquisition, by the way.
One of the great things about it: I followed you a while ago, and the change of address was totally seamless. If you hadn't posted about it, I'd never have noticed.