My Fediverse use – I'm hosting everything myself – PeerTube, Mastodon and Lemmy

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Elestio

I am using https://masto.host/ for Mastodon and https://elest.io/ for Lemmy. They are fully managed. I'm not worried about who owns my data, but I do want to have a stable identity. The first Mastodon server I signed up with mysteriously disappeared after a couple of weeks, so I decided I was better off paying a small monthly fee to put it on my own domain.

#PaaS #DevOps Tools #Backend As A Service 5 social mentions

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Discourse

More like https://discourse.org/. You can run it yourself, but I can also just have them ding a credit card every month and not think about it again (I do this for a community).

#Forums #Forums And Forum Software #Community Platform 23 social mentions

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Mastodon

I haven't seen anybody else talk about what the experience of following somebody from another service is like on the user-end. Following pixelfed accounts from Mastodon is actually fairly straightforward. You simply see them as a tweetlike message with an image attached. One caveat there is that Mastodon does not allow for as many attached images as pixelfed, and I believe will simply drop any images after a certain point (I want to say max size is 4). Following a peertube account or channel (you can do either) will show a post whenever new videos are uploaded. You can find the OP on mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@jeena@tube.jeena.net. One neat bit of functionality is that if you put all of your peertube follows into a single list, you've basically got a chronological subscribed page (a la youtube). Also take note that comments can be left on either the peertube site or from within mastodon.

#Decentralized Social Network #Open Source #Social Network 603 social mentions