Kelsey HightowerMastodon is the Linux of social media. The UX needs a little work but the momentum behind the project might help it overtake the other proprietary platforms.β©While I can use Mastodon as is, I can't help myself from looking under the hood, and I'll be forever tempted to run my own server.
Malcolm Bastien@kelseyhightower Once more services can make spinning up a Mastodon instance a one-button operation. It's gonna be wild.
πππ₯π₯πππ¨ π£πππππ ππ@malcolm @kelseyhightower I'm shocked there haven't been more hosted-services jumping into the fray with the demand. With Masto.host (and others) not taking on new subscribers, there seems to be a business opportunity.
I still need to work through the Digital Ocean/Mastodon tutorial, but I still have scars from running Wordpress Ops a decade ago. Still gunshy.
Jack@matthewreinbold @malcolm @kelseyhightower Not 100% what the UX of masto.host is, but what we need is a service for folks to create fediverse servers that looks something like how you create multiplayer gaming servers, I'm specifically thinking of minecraft realms. You have 0 knowledge of the underlying implementation - all you know is that you sign up for a service, you get a personal sandbox, you get a UI to admin that sandbox. It's entirely layer 7 and newbie friendly enough for non-engineers