I’ve been on Mastodon since 2017, but now my website is on there too. I’m @[email protected]. My website is @[email protected]—search for adactio.com in your Mastodon client of choice.

What’s the difference? Well, with my mastodon.social account, I’m syndicating stuff—most of my notes, and all of my journal—and including a link back to the original source here on my site. With the adactio.com account, it is the original source.

I thought about migrating over to my adactio.com account from my mastodon.social account, but I actually like having a separate profile. I browse Mastodon a lot more than I post, and browsing is a lot easier to do with a regular account.

If you’d like your website to be available on Mastodon, Bridgy Fed is the magic tool that makes it available. You’ll need to be able to send webmentions, and you’ll need to configure some .well-known directives. If you’ve you’ve already got webmention-sending set up, it’s all quite straightforward (though you will also need to update your HTML to include a link back to fed.brid.gy in each entry you want syndicated).

For some reason the syndication didn’t seem to be working at first, but then when I followed @[email protected] from my @[email protected] account, it started working. Maybe there needs to be at least one follower.

Also, my links don’t seem to be showing up on Mastodon even though it looks like everything is posting okay. Not sure what that is about.

Anyway, if you want to follow me on Mastodon, you now have a choice. There’s me, @[email protected], or there’s my website, @[email protected].

@adactio this is to me really fascinating. You’re creating your own shared web of a sort. The complexity has grown over time, somewhat, correct? But what are you mostly enjoying about the technical part of the federated part of the web?