It’s been a while, and over the past year I’ve moved and consolidated my Fediverse identities, so I thought it was time for an updated #introduction.

I started my Fediverse journey on fosstodon.org and mastodon.art, but it didn’t take long for me to realize I wanted more control over my online spaces. That led me down the path of running my own instances. Along the way, I set up jabber.social (Snikket), fairly.social (Mastodon), and snaps.social (Pixelfed). I kept them running for a while, but eventually realized I didn’t have the mental bandwidth to maintain community servers long-term.

Later, I discovered #selfhosting through #YunoHost. The learning curve—and finding the right VPS—was a bit rocky at first, but once I cleared that hurdle, things settled into a much smoother rhythm.

These days, I host my own instances for Friendica, BookWyrm, FreshRSS, Wallabag, LinkStack, Matrix, and Prosody, and I’m considering adding a dedicated note-taking app as well.

Outside of the infrastructure side of things, I’m an aspiring 2D/3D artist and occasional photographer, with a long-running love of sci-fi. Having my own space on the Fediverse makes it easier to share work-in-progress, experiments, and ideas without the pressure that often comes with larger corporate platforms.

Overall, I’m much happier being self-hosted and away from corporate services.