Just wanted to surface this long comment from me on the state of #Hometown and its future:

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/issues/1358#issuecomment-3549758036

I've been an absentee on the "Future of Hometown" thread for a year now and plan to be more responsive. I say more about it in the post itself.

#HometownAdmin

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

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@darius I've been wondering if bonfire is hometown2. Is it?

@t54r4n1 Tentatively: yes. If they manage to ship what they are promising (and I'm not saying that as a knock on the team, I would say that about literally anyone doing a project like that), and they ship migration tools, I would strongly consider moving Friend Camp to Bonfire.

My main concern is how easy or hard it will be to self-host. I have had trouble getting it up and running locally, but admittedly that was a year ago and it's come a long way.

@darius @t54r4n1 they have shipped migration and can even import posts from previous instances as un-announced boosts so that interactions are visible.

https://docs.bonfirenetworks.org/instance-immigration.html

Moving to a Bonfire instance — Bonfire v1.0.0-social

@darius @t54r4n1 but getting it up and running is still way more complicated than I think it needs to be :(