Michael H

Hi! Michael here, and nice to meet ya 🏳️‍🌈. I'm your friendly theATL.social admin...and enthusiast of #urbanism, #biketrails, #tech, #gatech, and #Atlanta , Georgia 🇺🇸

Trying my hand at creating a lil' Mastodon site with a regional focus on my hometown.

More about me: https://mikeh.dev

GitHub: https://github.com/mikehikes
The Internet Home: https://mikeh.dev

Last Notes

2025-02-01 18:39:01 GMT

Welcome new theATL.social users @npub1wnf…4xus, @npub1cuk…yf4z , @npub1hsh…lnhg , @npub15c2…q62h, @npub12ww…mue3 , @npub1ul5…n2eh, and @npub1lc5…2zs6 !
So glad you've joined our little slice of #Atlanta on federated social media.
Feel free to introduce yourself, and/or follow the #Atlanta hashtag. The Local Feed (https://theatl.social/deck/public/local) is also a great place to get started.
I hope you have an enriching and meaningful time on Mastodon, and welcome to the Fediverse! :mastodance:

2025-01-19 17:25:49 GMT

<sysadmin stuff>
The AWS SDK for S3 suddenly stopped working for my non-AWS object stores (DigitalOcean, R2, etc)...and I thought I was losing my mind.
Well, looks like AWS decided to stop allowing others to leverage/freeload their software for use on competing services.
Understandable-ish, but doing it suddenly, know that stuff would break - on top of AWS blatantly making bank on services based on OSS software - well, that makes for some very bad karma. :sad_dog:
#DigitalOcean #mastoadmin #aws #cloudflare
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2025-01-09 20:02:20 GMT

So, we're getting a winter storm in #Atlanta, with all the potential for bad stuff.
The surrounding county, Fulton County, [GA] just pushed a public safety alert screeching on all our mobile phones to let us know that...we should check #X for updates ⁉️.
So, I should browse updates in-between the various warmonger demands for the 🇺🇸 to invade other countries, garden variety hate speech, and all the other delights of the cesspool formally known as Twitter?
I just can't. Seriously, in the year 2025, the local county government can't find another way to deliver life safety-critical information than on X/#Twitter?
I mean, never mind Mastodon. How about publishing to, oh, I don't know...a website.
Wow. Just wow.
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2024-11-15 01:23:06 GMT

- reply

Some more info:
I'm working to integrate the two services (BlueSky and Mastodon) together - at the moment, there is not automatic cross-posting, however, there are no technical barriers to doing so.
Why add BlueSky to theATL.social's offerings so quickly? The service has very rapidly become the replacement for Xitter-like communication.
My vision for theATL.social is to become a collective home for many services: #Mastodon, #BlueSky, email forwarding, etc., all linked together in a single domain. And, to give back both value to the community for the exchange of information, and value to the financial contributors of the site.
Enjoy! And thank you again for your support.

2024-11-15 01:17:39 GMT

Hey theATL.social!
The hackathon is done, and theATL.social financial contributors (at any level) can now signup for #BlueSky accounts with a ".theatl.social" handle 🚀
Visit https://members.theatl.social and check it out:
You can create as many accounts as you'd like, but within reason, of course!
(Note that the Members Site will ask you to re-authorize access, as there was some major rebuilding of the app).
If you could give me a heads-up if it is working for ya, that would be amazing.
And...more fun stuff is on the way too. More info in 🧵
#Atlanta
#theATLSocial
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2024-09-01 19:21:00 GMT

Hey #Atlanta, if you're looking for some post #DragonCon stimulation, check this out at the #GoatFarm:
https://www.audiovideoclub.org/event-details-registration/avc-fest-the-goat-farm-an-audio-visual-activation-2024-09-06-18-30
I'll be there on Friday night. Looks super fun and interesting!