Hi folks!

Man, time has flown by. We started this site back in June and while our signups are kinda low for this instance. We’ve had over 120 subscribers for our home tucson.social community and over 200 for the local politics community. People from all over the fediverse post, comment, and consume our content - many of them Tucsonans themselves - just calling different instances “home”.

Anyways I can now be found at the Revolutionary Grounds coffee shop every Friday from noon to 5PM for anyone looking to meet your admin.

I’ll generally be working from there but would be happy to have a quick chat with anyone that frequents Tucson.social. You can stop by to talk about criticism of the site, praise, or even a pitch for your business to work together with tucson.social to achieve some common goal.

The goal here at first is familiarity. I believe every Tucsonan who frequents Tucson.social is entitled to know who I am and that I live here with y’all - not just some tech-bro in a coastal city with no connection to the community.

Then after folks are familiar, I want this to become a space to build. Movements, projects, businesses, you name it. Tucson.social is merely our digital “third space”, a manifestation of our desire to come together. It can be so much more if that also translates into physical third spaces.

* - note - Every Friday is indeed aspirational. This excludes common holidays or instances where I become ill.