TIL: Setting up a personal Fediverse ID / Mastodon instance October 28th, 2022

Elon buying Twitter kicked me towards finally setting up a Fediverse presence, something I’ve been meaning on doing for a while. It was important for me to do this in a way that maintains control over my own identity. The easy way would have been to create an account on mastodon.social, or one of the private Mastodon instances that friends of mine host. But if I did that, it wouldn’t be fixing the main problem with Twitter: that I don’t own my own identity.…