---
title: 'Announcing FreeSewing.social'
caption: 'Silhouette Photo of Elephant during Golden Hour by Renato Conti'
date: '2023-11-03'
intro: 'FreeSewing now has a home on the fediverse, and you can join too'
authors: 1
---

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. ## The
FreeSewing Mastodon instance 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.

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.

## Leaving Twitter 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.

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.

So, I will remove both `@j__st` and `@freesewing_org` from Twitter at the end
of this month.

## Joining Bluesky The Fediverse is not for everyone, and for those who like

the Twitter experience, Bluesky seems to be the alternative that is somewhat
closest.

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.
