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I 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
by saurik 4y ago
I 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.