Spacebear.EE Support
Woo! 🎉 About 90% ready to start hosting mastodon, and the hometown fork of mastodon. A ton of work went into this, and I am so thankful for the many resources I had access to, including the amazing and knowledgeable @mastohost who answered all of my questions. I would recommend his hosting service any day, it is solid and reliable. I am also thankful for the creator/contributors to Mastodon, and its forks. Another thank you for those of you who supported this service so I could scale out to offer even more options. The fediverse is a wonderful place and I am looking forward to helping more people to join.

Watch this place for updates on the launch (or DM me if you want to get added to the list of people I notify).
Dec 2, 2019 at 5:55pmWeb
Show threadfireglowDec 2, 2019
@support interesting! Why did you fork, which aspects did you change?
Show threadSpacebear.EE SupportDec 2, 2019
@fireglow the hometown fork was created by @darius, I would just be offering hosting for it. It has things such as local only posting, enhanced lists, better accessibility defaults, and more. You can read about it here: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown
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

GitHub
Show threadfireglowDec 2, 2019
@support @darius ooh, I see, cool, thanks for the link!
Show thread filippodb ⁂ Dec 2, 2019
@support @fireglow @darius will you provide migration from mastodon to hometown?
Show threadSpacebear.EE SupportDec 2, 2019
@filippodb @fireglow I will be able to do that (assuming that the version of mastodon in use is tagged, and that hometown has a corresponding tag). As @darius is just one person, the tags are a bit delayed from when masto itself gets tagged (which is completely understandable, and I in no way want to demand any work from him. As I know with open source, things happen when they happen, and can't be rushed). I was able to contribute a PR to hometown to be able to support the project.