james h jackson jr @jameshjacksonjr@librem.one

For some reason, Mastodon is experiencing a great influx of new users. 🤔

Within one month our following grew from 15k to 16k.

Happy to have been here since years already. 🥰🤩🥳

I was thinking, what if as an admin of a mastodon server, you could associate a standard set of #hashtags with your server, say no more than 200 chars worth, that would be added to local toots automatically? So if your server was themed, such as infosec.exchange, you might add some standard tags like #infosec to it, and in their options, people could elect to turn that off if they wanted or even elect to turn it off on a #toot-by-toot basis.

The general concept here to start building communities around standardized hashtags. Obviously, others could use the tags, and multiple servers/communities might use overlapping or even the same tags, but it would also mean that if I was into #infosec, I could pull up a column with that tag, and all the content from the #infosec communities would show up by default.

Being on a new network reminds me of the early days of blogging, when writing felt (for me) like a way to organize my thoughts rather than to reach as wide an audience as possible.

Writing for personal insights and to possibly generate a discussion with a small number of people feels refreshing.

#writing #mastodon #randomthought

Concert soon with #pirkanpojat

#taso #orchestra #percussion #choir

Got my Pinebook Pro earlier this week and installed Fedora this morning. Time to put this thing through it's paces. 😄