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@homegrown@social.growyourown.services · 22 hours ago

It's much easier and cheaper than you think to start your own Mastodon server:

- You don't need to be a tech nerd and you don't need any hardware. You can use a "managed hosting" service which does all the hosting and techy stuff for you behind the scenes.

- You don't need to be rich, managed hosting starts from around 5 to 10 euros per month including everything.

I've done a non-technical step-by-step guide to creating your own Mastodon server at:

🌱 https://growyourown.services/making-your-own-mastodon-server-in-10-steps

https://growyourown.services

How to create your own Mastodon server in 10 steps

spdrnl

@spdrnl@sigmoid.social replied · 20 hours ago

@homegrown Mastodon is switching to location based hosting.

If people starting hosting from the own dsl, then Mastodon could end up being a civic infrastructure.

Important is how to create a DMZ behind a modem.

Not sure how it works in the U.S. in the E.U. you often get one. And then you can also buy one yourself.

Probably a recommendation combo of router and small server setup could end up creating a civic infrastructure.

#mastodon #us #democracy #eff #technology #resist

Grow Your Own Services 🌱

@homegrown@social.growyourown.services replied · 17 hours ago

@spdrnl

This article is mainly aimed at non-technical people using managed hosting 🙂

Also the signup changes are just for the default suggestion, they're not changing how the full official listing is compiled. It also doesn't affect servers not on the list or on alternative lists such as https://fedi.garden

spdrnl

@spdrnl@sigmoid.social replied · 17 hours ago

@homegrown Thank you that information. Still it could work!

Timothy Roes

@TimothyRoes@mastodon.social replied · 21 hours ago

@homegrown Can I move my existing account? I selfhost a Matrix server already but I though hosting your own Mastodon server had significant downsides in terms of visibility of posts and replies

George B

@gbargoud@masto.nyc replied · 21 hours ago

@TimothyRoes @homegrown

Visibility of posts, yes but replies aren't as much of an issue since 4.5 introduced "fetch all replies"

Grow Your Own Services 🌱

@homegrown@social.growyourown.services replied · 21 hours ago

@gbargoud @TimothyRoes

Yes you can move your existing account: https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server/

And yup, the fetch all replies thing since Mastodon 4.5 makes life much easier for smaller servers. Every reply for every thread is fetched, no matter how small your server is. (Of course moderation blocks in either direction would override the fetching.)

I've tried to put together ways of getting more of the Fedi visible on your server at https://fedi.tips/using-relays-to-quickly-expand-a-servers-view-of-the-fediverse

In #Flancia we'll meet

@flancian@social.coop replied · 9 hours ago

@homegrown @gbargoud @TimothyRoes thank you for your writing on Fedi.tips, very nice!

One caveat, which you mention in the post but might be worth calling out: you can't migrate an account's posts currently, and that IMHO amounts to a "no" answer to "can I move my account". Mastodon has redefined moves to only be about followers and followed but I believe that doesn't quite make sense for general users and we should not normalize this definition.

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