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To which I replied:
To which I replied :
Have a look at lemmy.world/c/selfhosted - If you have a group of family or friends I think its a good way to get them on board and curate an instance that is useful for them.
Doesnt need to be #Mastodon - could be #Friendica or #Gotosocial
Lots of ways to simplify the process - I use #Yunohost gives me Email, Nextcloud and ActivityPub for friends and family
Ideally Id eventually like to see something like this packaged into a router like #openwrtone One
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> Have a look at lemmy.world/c/selfhosted - If you have a group of family >or friends I think its a good way to get them on board and curate an instance
> that is useful for them.
interesting use case, but is it possible to separate friends and family members on the instance somehow? Because it sounds really good to protect all people who are close to you, but they don't have to know what the "other chatroom" is about.
And the link gave me flashbacks, because I tried to create my own lemmy instance. I worked every day for a month on it to throw it away in the end. It had so many bugs and a few seconds after my instance was online, I had weird conversations in my database, which couldn't be seen in the UI. And talking about the issues with the creator of lemmy was a little bit a pain, too.
After this, I've started a classical forum (flarum), because it looked like the fediverse is doing weird things, like polluting the database with garbage.
> Doesnt need to be Mastodon - could be Friendica or Gotosocial
I don't get the concept of gotosocial? It's like having a Mastodon instance with yourself. How do people find you?
I guess it's not made for creators, but for nerdy consumers, right?
> Lots of ways to simplify the process - I use Yunohost gives me Email, >Nextcloud and ActivityPub for friends and family
That's for sure, but there is still the problem that it must be maintained and if you already have a community, it would be really easy, but without a community or even people who know what this is, you have to do it all by your own. This could be stressful and depressing (imho).
> Ideally Id eventually like to see something like this packaged into a router like > OpenWrt One
gotosocial looks like it could work, but not for the whole family :D
If you spin up a Lemmy instance and subscribe to a community, all new posts and comments inside that community will be mirrored to your instance. As I'm subscribed to around 100 different communities, that was a LOT of traffic without me doing anything. That's why I've given up on self-hosting Lemmy just for myself and went back to using lemmy.ml.
However, I do self-host a GoToSocial server just for myself. It's probably not necessary as mastodon.social isn't going anywhere anytime soon, but if you're on a smaller instance, it might be worth it. Also, you get to show off your own domain name. And, while other instances may block yours, your content stays online as long as YOU want it to. There's no way for an external moderator to delete posts on your own server.
People can find you via Boosts from others or by searching for your
@username@domain.com.Maintaining my GoToSocial so far consisted of simply getting WatchTower to update the Docker container. Migration of data to a new version happens automatically. (Well, there was one accident where some pre-release version got released under the
latesttag and I had to use the development branch for a few days .... but that was an accident from the GtS-team and shouldn't happen again.)And that's my biggest issue w/ Lemmy. It seems to scale okay, provided you have enough users to make all that traffic worthwhile. However, I'm unlikely to actually self-host since I really don't want a copy of literally everything I sub to. Ideally, I could host my own authentication server and only the communities I host (which would probably be 0), and I'd just fetch whatever I needed from wherever it's hosted.