Maha Bali مها باليAnd yay @timmmmyboy shows us he is da man for installing his own Mastodon on his own domain and connecting with us on Mastodon.social - now to explore the affordances and tips/tricks of that approach!
Tim Owens@mahabali Cool to see that it's working. That install was....intense. Too late for me to stay up and play but I'll poke around a bit more in the morning!
Scott Leslie@timmmmyboy what's the location of the server, is it social.timowens.io? Wanting to get a handle on addressing across instances, can I set up an account there?
@sleslie You got it right. Sure, feel free to setup an account there, can't promise I'll keep it online more than a few weeks but for the time being I'm all about experimenting. First I've heard mention of Quitter but interested in it! The federation part I think is key and something that easily gets lost in the shuffle that could be valuable going forward with any project.
@timmmmyboy that server doesn't want to respond over http at the root, is there a special path or port?
Dan Blickensderfer@sleslie @timmmmyboy Try :3000 (That's how Jim set mine up)
@Dan_Blick @timmmmyboy good guess!
@sleslie I may not have setup redirects from http properly. I know it is proxying port 3000 to https correctly (for now) so I'm accessing it on social.timowens.io.
Kate@timmmmyboy @social.timowens.io @sleslie So, question: can others sign up there? (This is really just out of curiosity.)
@sleslie @timmmmyboy so I hopped in there and I don't know if you get this there.
@katebowles I do indeed. I would have gotten the other message too but I think the formatting was off due to capital S or space or something. Saw it in the stream though. @sleslie
@timmmmyboy @sleslie ok got it. I think. Following your exchange with @cogdog, I grasp that to be in two instances means choosing where is main.
Thinking also: have seen instances sitting in some kind of web (WP?) context that allow explanatory or introductory guidelines etc. which would help a shared community space.
This is a question about what separates DoOO from SNoOO. Social network of one's own doesn't quite make sense. If "our", who is we? Paging @mahabali.
@katebowles @sleslie @cogdog @timmmmyboy funny on my PC when I click I can't see the context (i.e. previous toots) in this convo. When I talk about #SNoOO I mean "not owned/controlled by corporations", as in "open source" therefore "we" can suggest changes, and someone who codes can make them (this works well coz we know lots of people who code even if we can't... or won't, in my case). But federation also means different "we"s can create different Mastodons
@katebowles @sleslie At the moment yes, signups can happen on my domain too. Not sure how to turn off (not sure I want to at this moment given time for experimentation). Benefit is almost none though since featureset to mastodon.social is identical.