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There are services which will host your server for you for $6/mo. Your domain, your moderation/rules, can talk to anyone else. But if you want to hang out for
by ocdtrekkie 4y ago
There are services which will host your server for you for $6/mo. Your domain, your moderation/rules, can talk to anyone else.
But if you want to hang out for free on someone else's dime, you have to play by their rules.
- berkes 4y agoYou can even boot a "gotosocial" on a raspberri-pi at home for almost free (it'll cost a pi, and some electricity). Or on a €2/month VPS. And while gotosocial is still a multitier server (it resembles mastodon in much), there's nothing fundamental stopping the development of an even simpler rust/go/x activitypub server that acts for one actor only - a single-user server, which could be far, far simpler and leaner even.