I just stumbled upon another local instance similar to our own, right "next door" in the #SanJuanIslands called sanjuans.life. Hello over there @jeff, @LeeOnOrcas, et al.! I also appreciate this line in their description: "Local conversation, globally federated with the rest of the world." Nice concise explanation of the concept of a local server. I might steal that! #SanJuans #SalishSea #PNW #Cascadia #SubduedSocial #LocalServer #LocalInstance

I just added #SubduedSocial to the instance pickers at @instances mastodonservers.net, joinfediverse.wiki, masto.town, and I submitted a request for us to be added to the #regional list on joinmastodon.org. I hope more #local #BellinghamWA and #Whatcom people find us! I'm very optimistic about the potential for Mastodon for local conversations, and I hope we can provide a good home for people migrating here from the Bellingham subreddit. #RedditMigration

@cmonster @BellinghamWA paging @nathan the resident #SubduedSocial photographer

I just calculated everything we paid for #SubduedSocial hosting & domain registration this year so far, and our donation rate is looking good enough to cover costs with a bit of safety margin. So I went ahead and made a voluntary #LandTax donation to the Lhaq'temish Foundation equivalent to 10% of our hosting costs. I haven't found a way to do recurring donations to them or any other local native nonprofit, so I'll just do it periodically by hand. https://nativegov.org/news/voluntary-land-taxes/ https://www.lhaqtemish.org/

Ok, so I just paid the US Copyright Office $6 for a three year registration as a #DMCA designated agent for the #SubduedSocial instance.

* I have no idea if I really needed to do it, since our server is hosted by @mastohost in Portugal I think?

* I have no idea if I did it "right", but you can at least find subdued.social in the DMCA directory now: https://copyright.gov/dmca-directory/

* I am certain there is a lot more I _could_ be doing, based on this: https://denise.dreamwidth.org/91757.html but oh well...

@CurtisLBray interesting, I hadn’t heard about this before. I’ll look into whether I should do this for subdued.social too. #SubduedSocial #PNWZone

#BellinghamWA people: Join the subdued.social crew for a subdued coffee crawl in honor of the birthday of @morganm, a wonderful person and a great ambassador for our modest little #SubduedSocial Mastodon instance. We'll stroll through some of the best #tea and #coffee shops in Bellingham (#11thHour, #Camber, #Ashuri, #CafeVelo, and #BlackFern) on May 13, 2023. RSVP here: https://coffeecrawl2023.netlify.app/ #☕️

Welcome to Mastodon, Senator Shewmake! Hey #BellinghamWA people, please give a follow to @shewmake, our State Senator from Washington's 42nd District, and one of the most epic social media experts in the #WALeg! (like, you gonna check out her Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sharon4whatcom) #WhatcomCounty #Whatcom #SubduedSocial