Buzz AndersenFor those asking why I am thinking about setting up my own Mastodon instance: it's because I would like to have a permanent identity linked to a domain I control, as opposed to being on a specific random instance I might want to leave later, thereby losing my identity/established network.
John Moltz@buzz Thinking the same thing but pretty afraid to approach it as I fear it'll be over my head.
peterb@buzz I suspect that in practice this would be like setting up your own NNTP server: in return for the benefit of a 'permanent' identity you end up having to accept near-infinite streams of federated toots, forever.
Derek Powazek 🐐@buzz same reason we set up web and email servers.
Ed Ceaser@buzz i’m doing this as an experiment and i’m thinking of managing it for a friend group / their friends. but i don’t know how worth it it is for a single user
Charles Perry@buzz I wanted to “own” my own content and identity too, and solved the problem by setting up a WordPress-based microblog that syndicates/crossposts to other platforms. So anything I post to microblog.dazeend.org (the permanent record that I control) is crossposted to Twitter and Mastodon.
0xDEADBEEF@buzz
I've been thinking the same thing, however seems like a bit of a hassle too. I don't think I'm active enough to maintain it.
But yeah I feel you about some of the random instances. I was turned off by some due to seemingly arbitrarily odd restrictions.