John GruberJan 31, 2023

I like the fact that mastodon.social is the biggest instance, but I would leave for an instance that is paid only, say $10/month, has a cool domain name, and thus can afford to raise the rate limits.

Mastodon.social feels like early Twitter both culturally (good), and fail-whale-wise (not good).

Show threadRadu C. MartinJan 31, 2023
@gruber what could be cooler than @[email protected]?
Show threadJohn Gruber
@radu I’ve given that a lot of thought but I don’t want to be responsible for the instance. I think.
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Show threadAnders Puck NielsenJan 31, 2023
@gruber @radu Get a hosted server. I use masto.host, and it works great.
You should probably have a different domain though for SEO reasons. Like daringfireball.social.
Show threadmark dorisonJan 31, 2023
@gruber @radu Aren’t there managed hosting providers for Mastodon that would fit the bill?
Show threadMichael Welch Jan 31, 2023

@gruber @radu

$6.00 a month from @mastohost https://masto.host. Took me just a few minutes last Friday. Great service.

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Show threadMichael Welch Jan 31, 2023
@gruber I see I was late to the party with this recommendation. And realize in hindsight that the $6.00 plan wouldn't work for you. But the higher level plans probably would and it's super easy.
Show threadReid BurkeFeb 1, 2023

@gruber @radu Consider having another company host it, e.g. https://masto.host/ for $6/month.

Works great if you host on a dedicated domain. If you want to use the daringfireball.net apex domain, you'd need more fancy hosting which lets you set `WEB_DOMAIN` and some config on your blog webserver.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/#web_domain

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