Mastodon: Enter At Your Own Risk!

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[–]jw329 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

If you join a instance Mastodon sucks. If you run your own instance Mastodon rocks.

If they made it easier to run your own instance meaning 99% of people ran their own instance then we wouldn't need to join people's instance.

Unfortunately it's very difficult setting up your own instance so people go join other instances.

I joined 2 and got banned within 2 days.

I want to start my own instance but it's f-en hard to get it going and requires me to buy a server.

They should make it how you can run your own instance by using your phone and only you can join your own instance. That's would solve all the problems.

[–]brimshae 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Mastadon is just an instance on the Fediverse. It's an instance run by a power-tripping little bitch, but it's just one instance.

It unfortunately has good branding and has gotten people (mostly normies) to call most of Fedi "Mastodon", which is incorrect. That'd be like saying the site with the little blue bird that Elon bought last year is called Nitter because someone posted a Nitter link to a post there.

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

One of these years I'll have at least one set up for folks.

[–]BISH 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

One of these years I'll have at least one set up for folks.

How about 33!?

;-)

[–]panel30 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

this guy says he's offering to host instances for people: https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/managed-pleroma.html

[–]binaryblob 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

His service returns a 502.

I liked the part that one used to have to be technical to publish on the Internet.

[–]panel30 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I guess it's not just me who got a 502 then. I think you can still message him on fediverse even if the page isn't loading, his account is active. But I suppose it would be good to check that it's still being offered. I just messaged him about it, I'll see what he says.

[–]panel30 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I got a reply and he said he's not offering it anymore, but he recommended https://fediverse.express/ .