The initial version of our local user guide for Chinwag Social, our Mastodon instance, is now live. Getting Social You can sign up at https://social.chinwag.org/about – please let us know if there is anything else you’d like covered in the guide.

About two months ago, there was a big buzz that built up around Mastodon, a decentralised social network. I was really busy with the Melbourne Comedy Festival at the time, and didn’t get to take a look. I’ve had a look now, and taken advantage of the recent ChinWag server upgrade and extra resources to deploy an instance of it. You can sign up and start using it here: https://social.