{"id":1059,"date":"2023-01-06T11:37:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T16:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2025-09-17T16:21:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:21:46","slug":"mastodon-verification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/2023\/01\/06\/mastodon-verification\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastodon Verification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy 2023! A new year, a clean page, a blank slate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a Twitter user for a number of years, but some of the changes being made over there are somewhat concerning, and a Twitter-like federated social network called Mastodon has gained momentum as a Twitter alternative. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone here in Charlottesville has started a Charlottesville-centric Mastodon instance over at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cville.online\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/cville.online\/<\/a>, which is pretty cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/preview.png\" rel=\"lightbox[1059]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"529\" src=\"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/preview-1024x529.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/preview-1024x529.png 1024w, https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/preview-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/preview-768x397.png 768w, https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/preview.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you live elsewhere, there are numerous instances you can join, all of which interact with one another. Several popular ones are <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/mastodon.social\/<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mas.to\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/mas.to\/<\/a>, and even <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.scot\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/mastodon.scot\/<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find me over at <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@hchorey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@hchorey<\/a>. Feel free to register and come say hi. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"verification-links hidden\">\n<!-- These is the account I'm actually using --><br \/>\n<a rel=\"me\" href=\"https:\/\/cville.online\/@hchorey\">Mastodon<\/a><br \/>\n<!-- These are the accounts I'm keeping on standby as backups --><br \/>\n<a rel=\"me\" href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@hchorey\">Mastodon<\/a><br \/>\nMastodon\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy 2023! A new year, a clean page, a blank slate. I&#8217;ve been a Twitter user for a number of years, but some of the changes being made over there are somewhat concerning, and a Twitter-like federated social network called Mastodon has gained momentum as a Twitter alternative. Someone here in Charlottesville has started a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenotic.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}