James Walters @iamjameswalters@librem.one

...attractive the more I think about it. I've tried to have a blog before, but I had more ideas than I had time to write, and if you're not putting out content, who cares? No one will bother to keep up with it. But this format I think would be more manageable, if for nothing else than to comment on whatever I'm currently reading, writing, or thinking about (and I do a great deal of thinking). So, I think that's basically the strategy I'm going to adopt with Librem Social. More to come!

I was reminded recently that I can link my profile so folks can view it publicly (I know you can look up twitter handles, but I used to use Facebook, so I'm used to only allowing friends to see my posts). That makes my Librem Social profile the kind of thing I can link to on a business card. It's something that I can put thoughts out for people to see even if they're not on the network (and I don't want to be on the other networks for privacy reasons). Also, I find the microblogging more...

So Librem Social is a little different from the typical Mastodon experience. As a truly opt-in social network, they've turned off the local and federated timelines in their fork (smilodon). This has caused me 1) to ignore this platform for a long time, and now 2) to really rethink how I approach social media. I've used Mastodon in the past for content discovery (e.g., join a FOSS server, learn about FOSS, etc) and it's still great for that. But Librem Social will require a different strategy...

Got on librem.one, cool!

Hey @purism , is there a reason I can't access local/federated timelines on here? Would love to see what else is going on @librem.one