Post by @benpate@mastodon.social

A developer in Korea just built a Fediverse server that runs directly on CloudFlare.

/r/fediverse users responded:
"this is cancer"
"you are a horrible person"

???

Can you please help me with a genuine question: what would make the #Fediverse a more welcoming place?

Yes, humans are just grumpy sometimes. But a real solution can't just be more HOA members reading the rules at the door.

What do YOU think would make a difference here?

#fediverse

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Dr Kim Foale

@kim@post.lurk.org 2 hours ago

@benpate i wrote a piece on why i stopped hosting a server here https://gfsc.community/why-we-discontinued-our-mastodon-server/

Geeks for Social Change

Why we discontinued our Mastodon server

After three years of running our Fediverse server, we're shutting it down. Not because we've given up on the Fediverse, but because it isn't safe or sustainable enough for a community org like ours to run a server on a shoestring. Here's our roundup of the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

@evan@cosocial.ca 2 hours ago

@benpate So, my main takeaway from this is that so many of us are having fun on the Fediverse, we forget to participate in conversations *outside* the Fediverse, like on Reddit.

But that's the point where new people are finding us. The conversations about the Fediverse happening inside siloed social networks are the threshold people have to cross to get here.

We should be on the other side, welcoming them.

Thanks for the reminder. I just joined /r/fediverse and I'll try to help.

Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

@evan@cosocial.ca 2 hours ago

@benpate Here's the thread for those who want to participate:

https://www.reddit.com/r/fediverse/comments/1v2mt69/i_built_a_full_fediverse_service_that_runs_100_on/

Golemwire

@golemwire@social.golemwire.com 19 hours ago

@benpate@mastodon.social I think more political diversity would help. There is a strong far-left leaning here, and I think having more people on the right (but not the far-right, like MAGA level) present would be good in the long run.

When posters fail the liberal purity tests, instead of getting bullied and harassed and dogpiled in the replies, there would be arguments between people who think the purity test must be enforced on everyone, and those who do not. So instead of getting bullied away from the platform, they'd just get a typical internet-style comment-section fight, where the attention is diverted away from the OP and towards eachother.
It would still be annoying, but it'd be better than the replies mainly being hate towards the OP.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #socialMedia #partisanship

deutrino

@deutrino@mstdn.io 17 hours ago

@golemwire @benpate interesting angle

Ben Pate 🤘🏻

@benpate@mastodon.social 19 hours ago

@golemwire

Great points, thank you :)

Isolation breeds extremism (in either political direction) and the Fediverse does represent a certain amount of isolation.

armerpunkt

@armerpunkt@805820.xyz yesterday

@benpate A server that runs directly on Cloudflare sounds amazing to me. I’m currently running this instance through a Cloudflare tunnel (using GoToSocial on my NAS at home).

Ben Pate 🤘🏻

@benpate@mastodon.social yesterday

@armerpunkt

Me too. Inadvertently.

I’m on the Digital Ocean app platform, that automaticallly hosts everything behind CloudFlare.

I can understand people wanting to avoid being locked in to a specific platform. But to me, the coolest thing about this project is that it shows that you can host something completely “serverless” with Javascript.

Once we have that, how long is it until someone makes an open source CloudFlare-compatible environment?

Where will the haters be then?