 Hey guys, I just wanted to do one of these backyard vlogs this morning because this is an unusual event. We actually got a little snow last night. Now down here in Louisiana, this is a pretty rare occurrence. We probably get snow, I don't know, once every four or five years and it's usually just a couple inches, kind of like it is now. The temperature, it's already above freezing, actually snowed overnight, it got down a little below freezing. And I had to come out here and check on my cat because he's an outside cat, you guys have seen my cat, Mr. Barack Obama. And I was a little concerned about him because, you know, I got my cat in 2008 when Barack Obama was inaugurated president, you know, I got him that week and I named him in honor of Barack Obama being elected president and that was, what, 12, 13 years ago? He is not a young cat and I felt kind of bad for him to be out last night in the below freezing temperatures, but I couldn't find him. I haven't been able to find him yet this morning, but that's not unusual for a cat to disappear for hours at a time. Heck, when he was younger, he would disappear for days at a time. But the other reason I wanted to make a vlog today is to let you guys know that I am no longer on mastodon.technology. The person that owns mastodon.technology wants me off that instance because of my latest video. He wants to go ahead and ban me from that instance because on that video I stated that Donald Trump is not a white supremacist the way Mozilla claims on their blog post the other day. Mozilla claimed that Trump's tweets were promoting white supremacy. And I said that's ridiculous because Trump is not a white supremacist. He was a Democrat a few years ago, which is factually accurate. He actually has been a Democrat in his past. He actually has some pretty liberal views. So it's strange that apparently this guy took issue with that because he direct messaged me and said that my video was, quote, horseshit and that Trump is a white supremacist and he wants me off of his instance. Now I don't like arguing with people. This person is obviously probably deeply politically involved and I don't like arguing politics with people like this. So it's his instance. I respect that. I have no issues with this guy. This guy is named Ash Furrow and I assume he's probably somebody of color that's deeply involved in fighting racism and injustice in the world. Probably in America, probably lives in the deep south where there's a lot of racial attention still from decades past. But when I looked up his profile, it looks like this guy, he's a white guy from Canada. You crazy Canucks. Yes, I was banned from Mastodon by a Canuck. I love my Canadian viewers, by the way. You guys are awesome. But what I've decided to do, a lot of you guys, over the years when I've talked about Mastodon, many of you guys have said, hey man, I joined this Mastodon instance and I was banned. Mastodon is just like Twitter and I've always told you guys, that's wrong because it's decentralized. Go to another instance of Mastodon, join another server or create your own Mastodon instance. And know now that this fellow Ash wants me off of Mastodon.technology, I actually was kind of happy because this gives me a chance to kind of practice what I preach. I've been telling a lot of you guys, hey, go start your own Mastodon instances or whatever it is, all these decentralized pieces of software. Go start your own instances and that's exactly what I decided to do, just to make my life a little easier. I went ahead and spun up a server this morning and I have already had the domain name distrotoot.com, yes, Toot as in Mastodon. So I went ahead and set up my own personal Mastodon instance at distrotoot.com and I just wanted to let you guys know because I have, you know, almost 4,000 followers on Mastodon over at Mastodon.technology. All you guys need to quit following distrotube at Mastodon.technology and follow Derek at distrotoot.com. That's where I'm going to be right now and you know, it'll be the same thing. I mainly use Mastodon as a signal service where I post links to my videos as soon as I upload them because you guys know the YouTube notification system is kind of a mess. Oftentimes I'll post something, you guys don't get notified about it, but if you're following me on Mastodon, I always post on Mastodon as soon as I upload something. I've got a lot of snow and ice falling out of the trees as the temperature rises here. I got hit on top of my bald head. Yes, I said bald, but I'm not really bald. Anyway, guys, that's really all I had to say. I'm going to continue to search for my cat a little bit longer and I might even make a snowman. All right, guys, peace.