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Mastodon server used by HN users?
Twitter drama is through the roof. Although I'm confident the social media giant is not going anywhere anytime soon. I want to inquire if HN users have started migrating to Mastodon, and which servers they're using to do so.
- Finnucane 4y agoI got on social.linux.pizza. I wasn't a twitter user before though, I just thought this was a good time to try Mastadon, with the increased activity.
- metadat 4y agoYes, I got on https://mastodon.sdf.org/ https://mastodon.sdf.org/. So far so good. Edit: the reply is now deleted, but someone asked why I picked this server. I researched sdf.org and found they've been around a long time (20+ years) and the server rules seemed reasonable and not overly narrow or restrictive. Also, I actually got the registration email from this one, I tried some others and never got the promised email.
- kazinator 4y agoWhy did you pick that? It's not obvious how to choose a fediverse instance to join.
- gamjQZnHT53AMa 4y agoPick one that aligns with your interests, even superficially. You can migrate accounts between instances if you feel you made a mistake.
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- rufius 4y agoI’ve been on bsd.network for a while. Mostly because I do BSD adjacent things and some folks I know peripherally are there too. L
- OctopusLupid 4y agoI'm running my own server for my friends.
- saurik 4y agoI would have hoped your average Hacker News user would run their own server, but I am often disappointed as seemingly many people don't even run their own email servers :(. Mastadon seems particularly in need of a mechanism where you can get a hosted domain option, where you can easily just point a DNS record at some large instance and have it work as easily as email does after you point an MX at Google or Microsoft.
- cpach 4y agoThere are Mastodon hosting companies that offer services like that. Here’s one example: https://masto.host/ https://masto.host/
- geoah 4y agoWas looking into this and seems kind of a pain. Too many moving parts and unclear best practices. Matrix imo does self hosting nicely with dendrite. You get two options: monolith or multiple services. Monolith will use in process queues etc instead of having them as separate processes/containers.
- Finnucane 4y agoIt doesn't seem worth the effort unless you have some use case--a particular community you want to cater to, or an organization that wants to control identities on a domain. As an individual, it seems a better choice to go with an established server, and kick in a few bucks on patreon or whatever as needed.
- mg 4y agoI will use MicroBlogPub on my own domain: https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub It seems to have the leanest code base. I am currently putting together a setup script for it. It has an install documentation here: https://docs.microblog.pub/installing.html#python-developer-edition https://docs.microblog.pub/installing.html#python-developer-... I prefer a single script to this type of "first do this, then do that, then ..." tutorials. So I will write a script first, that let's you install MicroBlogPub on a fresh VPS without having to do anything.