→@[email protected]

Just set up my personal Mastodon at https://mastodon.ar.al

Follow me there:

https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/remote_follow

You can mention me there using @aral

When/if you can, I would highly urge you to set up your own Mastodon instance. Currently requires tech knowledge/isn’t seamless (and getting it there will be a big challenge) but this is a great start and a very good step in the right direction.

Lots of love to @eugen and the dev team :)

Apr 10, 2017 at 3:03pmWeb
Show threadLeo LaporteApr 10, 2017
@aral @aral @eugen So will you want to open it to the public or do you think every user (or small group) should have its own instance?
Show thread→@[email protected]Apr 10, 2017
@leo No, I have no interest in curating a community. I’d love to see federation/decentralisation at the scale of one. Where the community becomes the social graph between the instances :) + @aral @Gargron
Show threadLeo LaporteApr 10, 2017
@aral @aral @Gargron Interesting idea. Does that create a lot of overhead for the Federation? I have docker support on my Synology NAS and I'm sure it has enough oomph to run an instance of one (or, say, a family).
Show threadAral BalkanApr 10, 2017

@leo Unless I’m missing something, it shouldn’t introduce any new scaling issues (thoughts @Gargron?)

Families are an interesting use case I was thinking of recently in the context of https://ar.al/notes/encouraging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons/

(Do let us know how your experience is with administering one if you set one up – and I mean the social aspects, not just the technical ones.) ;)

Show threadinmysocks Of Doom, Naked KSCApr 10, 2017
@aral @Gargron @aral @leo for this I think that it would be much better to have a light weight server. I would imagine that in principle something like a raspberry pi could be a local server but from what I heard mastodon requires more power than that.
Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​Apr 10, 2017
@leo @aral @aral So, is TWIT going to set up twi.mastodon.social or something?
Show threadLeo LaporteApr 10, 2017

Possibly @dredmorbius @aral @aral
There's definite interest in a TWiT Mastodon.

I set up an identi.ca instance, The TWiT Army, in 2008 but it takes a lot of moderation and I'm not sure I have the bandwidth. It sure would be fun, though!

Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​Apr 10, 2017
@leo @aral @aral Point is, you don't have to open it to anyone but yourselves -- the TwIT team. Peer to the rest of the network. You'd have instance admin and stuff, but no need to accept rabble such as, say, myself.
Show threadLeo LaporteApr 10, 2017
@dredmorbius @aral @aral But we'd want rabble like you!
Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​Apr 10, 2017
@leo @aral @aral Be careful what you ask for!
Show threadLeo LaporteApr 10, 2017
@dredmorbius @aral @aral Oh maybe I misunderstood - are you asking if we'd set up an official @twit account? Probably not - I don't think brand spamming is a good idea for mastodon.
Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​Apr 10, 2017
@leo @aral @aral Actually, your own instance. Not just an account. I'm suggesting you might do that. Just a thought.
Show threadWillApr 11, 2017
@dredmorbius @leo @aral @aral Doesn't having multiple instance inherently cause a fracturing problem? I can only imagine having to log in and out of multiple instances much less keep track of them. This is google's problem with multiple accounts now and sounds like the early days of android. Would it be possible to manage all instances in one place?
Show threadLeo LaporteApr 11, 2017
@will @aral @aral @dredmorbius If that becomes an issue for you (similar to multiple email addresses) just make sure to create only one OSStatus account.
Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​Apr 11, 2017

@will @leo @aral @aral I'm thinking that various forwarding / aggregation, and possibly disaggregation options would be available.

Remember, there's an API as well, you can talk through that. It would authenticat to the servers, but you wouldn't have to worry about that.

Show threadStefanie SchulteApr 10, 2017
@aral @aral I think it isn't "Eugen", but @Gargron. Otherwise, great!
Show thread→@[email protected]Apr 10, 2017
@stefanieschulte Oh yes, I keep forgetting it’s @Gargron +@aral
Show threadetherealNecrosisApr 10, 2017
@aral id actually like to make my own instance, but I cant figure out how to get started or what tools ill need. can you fill me in?
Show threadJoachim Ziebs✅Apr 14, 2017
@eugen @aral @aral Is there any how-to?