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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 :)

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?
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@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
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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.