Is anyone else on Mastodon (eg, "the Fediverse")?

[deadsuperhero]

With everything going on with Twitter these days, there's been an increased interest in alternative spaces for people to congregate. One of these spaces is Mastodon, which in some aspects is very similar to Twitter due to being designed around microblogging. One fundamental difference, though, is that the network is not just on one website, but many sites that can all talk to each other.

Over the past few months, Mastodon has increased by roughly 2.5 million people, across a staggering 9,000+ servers (called "instances"). With all that being said, Mastodon is part of an even bigger network, though: the fediverse. It's kind of like a modern incarnation of Usenet, but with the conveniences of web interfaces and mobile apps. There are replacements for many different kinds of services: YouTube, Instagram, GoodReads, Reddit, MeetUp, GrooveShark, and Apple Podcasts. WordPress blogs and Drupal sites can integrate with it, and Tumblr and Flickr are mulling over native integrations to the network, too. All of these things are capable of talking to each other through a common protocol: a Mastodon user can follow someone from Pixelfed and see their photos in the stream, or do the same with a PeerTube user and see their videos. The Mastodon user's replies show up as native comments at the post's point of origin.

Anyway, with that explainer out of the way, I wanted to ask: are you on the network somewhere? I've noticed a handful of notable current and former AGS'ers on there so far, many of whom are on GameDev Place. Here are a couple of cool people I've found from the community:

• Space Quest Historian
• Twarda, the visual artist and animator of Zniw Adventure
• Kurasiu, programmer and writer of Zniw Adventure
• Postmodern Adventures
• Ben304
• Grundislav!
• Technocrat, creator of Technobabylon
• Dave Gilbert, of Wadget Eye Games fame
• Dead Idle Games, of "If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers"
• Ben Ward, one half of "Ben there, Dan that!"
• CaptainD
• vga256
• Me, deadsuperhero.

Along with a couple of famous gamedevs:

• Ron Gilbert, creator of Monkey Island
• Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia

Those are all of the ones I've managed to find so far. There are tons of indie game devs outside of the AGS Community, and in fact, lots of people from all walks of life on the network. Anyway, if you're interested in joining, or already on here, feel free to drop your link in th replies, and I'll update the list!

[CaptainD]

Aw, you don't count me as a cool person you found on there!   

Anyway, Here I am although in truth, I'm unlikely to spend a lot of time there unless Twitter does actually implode.

[deadsuperhero]

Aw, you don't count me as a cool person you found on there!   

Anyway, Here I am although in truth, I'm unlikely to spend a lot of time there unless Twitter does actually implode.

Oops! I thought I had added you! 
List updated. 

[thedaemon]

Why yes I am!