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title: "Announcing FreeSewing.social"
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caption: "Silhouette Photo of Elephant during Golden Hour by Renato Conti"
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date: 20231103
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intro: "FreeSewing now has a home on the fediverse, and you can join too"
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author: joost
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FreeSewing has carved out a spaced for itself on the Fediverse and that space is [FreeSewing.social](https://freesewing.social). It's a Mastodon instance that is open to all FreeSewing users, and the larger community.
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## The FreeSewing Mastodon instance
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The official FreeSewing account ([@freesewing@freesewing.social](https://freesewing.social/@freesewing)) will be used for formal announcements, so if you want the headlines, follow that one.
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I will be using my own account ([@joost@freesewing.social](https://freesewing.social/@joost)) for more frequent updates, news, discussion and whatnot. So if you'd like to be more in the loop, that's a good one to follow.
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And -- it bears repeating -- you are welcome to join this instance. If you were wondering about Mastodon/Fediverse but were not too sure about what to do or what server to join, this is your chance.
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## Leaving Twitter
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I need more work like I need another hole in my head, so setting up this instance was something I've been mulling over for a while, but in the end I decided to do it because Twitter -- where both FreeSewing and myself have an account -- has been transformed into something that I honestly don't want to have anything to do with.
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This has been going on for a while, and leaving Twitter at this point is not exactly a strong statement. It's just that I've been busy, and certainly was too busy to deal with this. So I decided that the website migration was a good time to make the formal announcement.
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So, I will remove both `@j__st` and `@freesewing_org` from Twitter at the end of this month.
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## Joining Bluesky
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The Fediverse is not for everyone, and for those who like the Twitter experience, Bluesky seems to be the alternative that is somewhat closest.
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This is by no means an endorsement, but I have created [joost.at](https://bsky.app/profile/joost.at) and [FreeSewing.org](https://bsky.app/profile/freesewing.org) on Bluesky. I will do my best to also post there so that those people who prefer it can get their updates that way.
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