Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿Dec 21, 2022

If you are considering running your own Mastodon server (or similar service) and it will be hosted in the United States, please read this general best practice guideline from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer

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User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer

A growing number of people are experimenting with federated alternatives to social media like Mastodon, either by joining an “instance” hosted by someone else or creating their own instance by running the free, open-source software on a server they control. (See more about this movement and joining...

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Show threadChad KirbyDec 21, 2022
@koavf TYVM! I'm thinking about spinning up a home server. Last time I did this, it was way too complicated. Hopefully it's streamlined now!
Show threadJustin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿Dec 21, 2022
@chad Please let me know if you end up doing it: I have had a backburner goal of doing the same myself for years. Do you think you would have a single-person server to just post your own stuff or would you try to make a community?
Show threadChad Kirby
@koavf my plan was just to host my own family’s data. I’ll report back, though! I’ve got for couple SBCs floating around that would be great for this.
Dec 21, 2022 at 6:05amWeb