50-something fledgling author looking for my home(s) within the fediverse.

Somewhere on this timeline I’m King of the Pirates. No wait, the Wizard King. No wait, a published author. I’ll let you know. 🙂

Sic Semper Tyrannis

he/him

Husband and Father
First Novel Querier
Second Novel Drafter
Short Story Submitter
Fantasy Writer

https://bsky.app/profile/jbpinkle.com

My blog such as it is exists at this link: https://jbpinkle.com/
I post rarely, and haven’t even set up email signups yet. That will come eventually though…

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Cake day: July 17th, 2023

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  • FWIW migrating from Mastodon migrates all your followers automatically and you can interact with them just as you did on Mastodon.

    You do need to manually recreate your list of people you follow though, from what I could tell.

    Once that’s done you haven’t really lost anything unless you were or were intended to be heavily active with the feed on your local mastodon instance. (Vs federation etc)


  • ok but how about you tell me why to move from mastodon to firefish?

    I like the UI better (by a lot), I like the “antennas” feature, I like that I can do a traditional blog post if I choose (“pages” they call it), it’s very custom-configurable, and in the 3 days since I’ve joined I’ve already seen bugfixes and improvements deployed.

    Why move? If Mastodon is 100% great for you and nothing about the look/feel/functionality of Firefish jumps out at you then there is really no reason.


  • As a child of the 70s, the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 probes have been a part of my earliest understanding of space and our exploration of it. I learned about them (multiple times) in school, and was excited (spoiler alert) years later with how central the fictional Voyager 6 was to the plot of the first Trek movie.

    Every single time I have read that they are still sending data back I’m excited to hear it, though from what Wikipedia says there is really no likelihood either will be doing so later than 2025/2026 respectively.

    This headline gave me a little “oh no” moment until I read the article. 😀