a personal invitation, from anthony →

come hang out online with me.

I run two little social networks out of my own server. They're small, they're chill, and they're nothing like the websites you're trying to quit.

option one

jingle.club

The cozy one. Walls, photos, comments, longer posts — a place to actually say something.

Facebook, back when it was fun. Sign me up →

option two

gardenstate.club

The chatty one. Short posts, quick takes, easy to lurk, easy to find folks.

Twitter, before everything got loud. Sign me up →

so what is this

It's two separate hangouts that happen to speak the same language.

Both run on something called the Fediverse — a kind of social internet you can host yourself instead of renting from Meta. jingle.club runs an app called Forte (the Facebook-shaped one). gardenstate.club runs Hometown, a friendlier fork of Mastodon (the Twitter-shaped one).

They're two different places with two different feels, but they can talk to each other — and to thousands of other little independent servers out there — whenever you choose to. By default, they don't.

What to expect.

No ads, no algorithm. Posts show up in order. Wild concept.
It's small on purpose. You'll see the same friendly faces. That's the point.
Local by default. Your posts stay on the server unless you flip a switch. Nothing leaks out to the wider internet.
No AI training, no data sales. Nobody's monetizing your jokes.
I pay the bill. If you want to chip in someday, cool. If not, also cool.
Pick one or both. Same person, two rooms.

questions? weirded out? want me to walk you through the sign-up?
just text me.

— Anthony