So it’s been a long time for a lot of things. One, blogging — I’d love to get back into that again, since applying POSSE principles to one’s online content is always a good thing. Specifically for this post, let’s chat about Warp Drive Active.

Some of you out there may remember the old EVE Online comic of my own creation, and the podcast of the same name hosted by myself and Urban Mongral. Obviously it’s been ages since any new thing has happened there, so it’s probably a good time to do something special with that site and its content. My intention is to set up a kind of historical archive of the both the comic and the podcast, with a new site design. The comic will get its own (hopefully) easy to browse gallery view, and all of the podcast audio will get brought in under a single place to listen to.

This will take a bit to complete, and I might do it with an Agile approach that updates things with iterations. Expect the site to change and improve over time, and I hope the end result of it will be a nice home for my own little contribution to the history of EVE Online. I can’t commit to a timeline on the finished product of course, other than Soon ^TM.

It’s been fascinating to watch recent events in the social media sphere, and even more fascinating to start working with Mastodon. There’s something about independent, open-source platforms that attracts me to see how they compare to their more centralized, commercial counterparts.

There are some interesting differences with Mastodon that set itself apart from services such as Twitter, and I’ll admit those differences tend to make it a hell of an onboarding challenge. There’s no central instance of it, so you can make an account on any of the federated Mastodon services out there and still will be able to connect to the broader whole. This means you can choose a server that most closely aligns with your own personal community needs. Each instance can have its own content policies. You’re also able to migrate from one instance to another freely, which is handy if the instance you were on somehow drifts away from what you consider to be acceptable.

It’s neat and it’s new, a bit complicated to get yourself set up but maybe it will replace something like Twitter. At the very least it could help to improve the social media situation through some thoughtful principles.

If you’d like to check me out on Mastodon, feel free to use the link below. If you decide to join up, follow away.

@winterblink@mastodon.social