Only thing I don't like about this so far: not knowing what it means to choose one mastodon server over another, and anxiety that I have chosen wrong for some reason I don't know yet. That said, I'm envisioning the Octodon as a many-armed furry prehistoric creature, which I rather like. And I don't *think* I'm having any problems with remote following.
@RebelMoogle Ah, I see, there's a lot more info on about/more! Well, that sounds pretty good to me. I'd trust a competent sysadmin with my life. :)
@bradamant hehe, exactly. :)
@bradamant That's what brought me here too...turns out I was wrong. It's a South American rodent!
@orielle That's actually more clever, I think, to know of a similar-sounding but totally different interesting animal. Cheers @CobaltVelvet.
@bradamant @CobaltVelvet Oh, without a doubt! But that part of me that likes make believe likes the idea of an eight headed/trunked monster more. See earlier childish toots and adolescent SOH for reference... :-)
@bradamant You choose the good one, simply because there is not a bad one. They are all the same basically...
@bradamant Me too. I spent a ridiculous amount of time dithering over the decision.
@eenor And now I'm worried about my username! :P I took bradamant which I've used since the 90s but maybe I should have snagged Emily somewhere while I still could.
@bradamant I admire your commitment to a username. Usually just picking the name is my hold-up in registering.
@eenor My secret is just always using it without thinking, even though I haven't necessarily actively liked it since about 1998. Sometimes people think I'm a guy called Brad, and once someone tried to launch a line of bodysuits called Bradamant, but I had the username everywhere so they gave up after clogging my mentions for year or so. Ha!
@bradamant I can't believe somebody thought that was a good enough bodysuit name to spend a year trying to get it. Maybe they'd already worked out an amazing advertising campaign around it that no one will ever get to see.
@bradamant *theoretically*, if *everything is functioning correctly*, and the *stars are aligned just so*, and *mercury is not in retrograde*, and *a wet dog sighs in a dry fire*, and *there's money in the banana stand*, then it shouldn't matter what Mastodon instance you have an account on as long as it's talking to the other instances.
@bradamant Think of it like email. I have an email at insitution y and you have an email at institution z, but it doesn't matter, because we don't have to be on the same email service to email one another.
@bradamant read their about pages. :) I specifically chose this one for it's about page. (All comunities lead by women sys admins I've joined so far have been excellent in the past)