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It's exactly like email if you use gmail or yahoo. So... WHAT'S THE POINT? Whynot use twitter then? With email, you can use gmail, or yahoo, or buy a domain an
by dorfsmay 9y ago
It's exactly like email if you use gmail or yahoo. So... WHAT'S THE POINT? Whynot use twitter then?
With email, you can use gmail, or yahoo, or buy a domain and host it yourself, or pay a provider (including google) to host your domain.
Are there options to host your domain on Mastodon without hosting it yourself?
Also, what are the chances that the current servers/providers will still be around in 2 or 5 years?
- kstrauser 9y agoYes, there's for-pay Mastodon hosting. As for why not Twitter: suppose you want a private instance for your family. Or company. Or softball team. Mastodon makes it trivially easy to launch an invitation-only server so that you can chat and share images with just those people. It also means that you and I can host instances with different community standards. Maybe you want to focus on liberal horse-lovers while I want a hangout for Republican fisherman. Mastodon lets us both go our own way, and gives us tools to decide whether our very different servers should even talk to each other.