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You're incentivized to either choose a stable, robust instance, or self-host. A lot of instances are pet projects that people kill off once they get bored of ma
by huimang 3y ago
You're incentivized to either choose a stable, robust instance, or self-host. A lot of instances are pet projects that people kill off once they get bored of mastodon and don't want to pay for the upkeep anymore.
Self-hosting is the only way to really guarantee that it'll still be up years later. But you might get randomly banned from certain instances that blanket-ban single-user instances.
- praisewhitey 3y agoIsn't self-hosting more likely to end up being one of those pet projects that gets killed off?
- ambichook 3y agobut if it's a pet project that gets killed off it's because you yourself got bored of it and killed it, it's entirely within your control, not at the whims of someone else
- michaelt 3y agoI've got to say, that doesn't sound like a very good solution. How are people who aren't already part of the community supposed to know what a stable, robust instance is? And self-hosting is all very well, but if I wanted to join a community comprised exclusively of greybeard unix sysadmins, I'd use IRC :)
- dumpsterlid 3y ago[dead]