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Many servers/communities exist in which you might find a good home, but you will need to live with their rules and moderation policies. If you are a politician,
by kornhole 4y ago
Many servers/communities exist in which you might find a good home, but you will need to live with their rules and moderation policies. If you are a politician, journalist, or other high profile person who wants full control to avoid censorship, trolling, and cancellation, get your own domain name. I recommend gandi.net, but other registrars are available. If you already have a domain name, we use a subdomain such as social.yourdomain.com.
1. Setup your own Mastodon instance that you fully control. You have several options here:
a. If you already have your site hosted on a server, you can co-host it there.
b. If you want someone to take care of all the install and maintenance, contact someone such as https://masto.host/ https://masto.host/.
c. If you want to run it from hardware sitting in your office or home, you have many options to do that too.
2. Setup your server rules, logo, and users such as your staffers.
3. Go to https://twitodon.com/ https://twitodon.com/ and register your new account connected to your Twitter account. Also update your home page with this account if you have one.
4. Setup RSS for all the people still tweeting instead of tooting using https://rss-bridge.org/ https://rss-bridge.org/ or https://nitter.net/about https://nitter.net/about to get their RSS feeds.
- jeffbee 4y agoThat did not really answer the question. Twitter allows me to disseminate a photo or video to the entire world, at no risk to myself, for free. How does mastodon address the use case?
- kornhole 4y agoAnybody following your account will receive that toot and photo unless the server they are on has blocked your server or your account. I don't believe there are any limitations to how far your toots can fly other than that.
- jeffbee 4y agoNothing about the current performance of prominent mastodon instances suggests their ability to disseminate messages is unlimited.
- kornhole 4y agoThat is due to too many users jumping on when the servers were not sized for the amount of activity. My server is doing just fine, but I have a relatively small number of users and activity.
- kornhole 4y agoAnd to answer the question about bandwidth: If Obama with 150K followers spread across 1500 servers posts a 200KB image: Obama's server will: - have an outbound bandwidth of 300MB - storage increased by 200KB. The 1500 subscribing servers will: - each have inbound bandwidth of 200KB - have outbound bandwidth to devices of 20MB if they have 100 users each - increase storage by 200KB Those subscribers can boost(retweet) the toot, and then their subscribers will see it too. If they are on the same servers, the increase in bandwidth is only getting it to their devices. - increase in storage of 200KB