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Between playing around on mastodon, and my family's own/private gnu social instance, and matrix.org, i honestly don't know which to give my attention...In any c
by mxuribe 10y ago
Between playing around on mastodon, and my family's own/private gnu social instance, and matrix.org, i honestly don't know which to give my attention...In any case, it is exciting that there are a few efforts underway that have to do with decentralized communication. Funny how email - and its decentralized-ness - still lives on. I grant you that other platforms might get their attention (sometimes short-lived), but decentralized platforms - yes like email - just don't die...and i think that's great because among other reasons decentralization fends off death.
Kudos to the Mastodon team!
- daveid 10y agoThank you! The Mastodon team is just me though!
- erikb 10y ago"Private" in the meaning of running your own host, or "private" as in "people I don't trust can't access it"? The latter would be quite interesting to me. How to achieve that with gnu social platforms?
- mxuribe 10y agoIn my case I actually meant both; I do host my own, and I've locked it down as a private instance only for my family. (I do this partly to play around and learn, but more so for me to teach my kid how to actually use social media but in a safe environment, before letting them loose on the public/uncontrollable silos.) Here's a screenshot of some of the settings for restricting access on gnu social: http://imgur.com/a/gXy7y http://imgur.com/a/gXy7y
- erikb 10y agoIt really looks like they thought about that when developing gnu social as well and you can just set checkboxes. That's nice. In that regard I'll probably also set up my own instance. Thanks!