Darius KazemiJul 1, 2019

I finished my stint as a Mozilla Fellow and now I'm relaunching my Patreon with a focus on, well, fixing social media.

This means I'm going to continue my concerted work trying to make the fediverse a better place, in the form of best practice guides for running instances, external advocacy, and technical tutorials and training so that more people can contribute software to the fediverse at large.

You can read a partial summary of my work so far at my new Patreon page!

https://www.patreon.com/tinysubversions

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Roscoe EllisJul 13, 2019
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Oh, and I'm releasing my own fork of Mastodon based on my experiences running Friend Camp for a year. It's called Hometown, and you can read more about it here:

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown

It's not fully documented yet but it will be. Experienced Mastodon admins should be able to switch over with a minor database migration and minimal fuss.

GitHub - hometown-fork/hometown: A supported fork of Mastodon that provides local posting and a wider range of content types.

A supported fork of Mastodon that provides local posting and a wider range of content types. - hometown-fork/hometown

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Show threadclarity flowersJul 1, 2019
@darius this is really cool! I've actually been thinking a lot about making a decentralized discord/slack thing in this same small-locally-operated style (not anytime soon, maybe starting next year) and would love to chat with you abt what you're learning sometime.
Show threadDarius KazemiJul 1, 2019
@clarity Happy to! You know how to find me and I'm always down for coffee :)
Show threadclarity flowersJul 1, 2019
@darius awesome :)
Show threadgaeelJul 20, 2019
@darius Ahahaha, I see this just as I finished forking and deploying the friend.camp version
Do you recommend moving over to hometown instead?
Show threadDarius KazemiJul 20, 2019
@gaeel Yes, that's actually something I'm supporting so I recommend it, it should not even require a db migration to move over from friend camp, they are very similar right now
Show threadJacksonAug 7, 2019

@darius Just setup my first Mastodon instance using your Hometown fork!

runyourown.social is our guide as my friends and I develop birb.town into our own personal home on the internet. Thank you!

Show threadwesNov 15, 2019
@darius i just got a hometown instance up and, i think, working? have been thinking about runyourown.social ever since it went up, am so excited to play with it and get some folks onboarded!!
Show threadZate 🦘🇦🇺Nov 11, 2022
@darius looks super interesting and I like the gravitation to more privacy-by-default options.
Show threadElmo MuskNov 11, 2022
@darius Hey Darius, you're a great inspiration to us all, with your programming work, activism and art! Thanks for everything you've done man, and I'm a literal stranger who's only known you through your work.
Show threadDarius KazemiNov 11, 2022
@rooneel aww thank you!
Show threadExandraJan 3, 2023
@darius this looks wonderful, very much considering "upgrading" from 4.0.2 to hometown for my neighborhood mastodon server