I've been thinking for a long time on setting up a VPS to self host some services but lack of time and energy to do it properly (as this post describes) is blocking me.
Yet, I'm also more inclined to share the load in a coop fashion so I may never do it, or do it just for learning and never go to "production".
@jorgesanz thanks for the link, it is a good usable non-technical take. Only I didn't understand the bent towards rootless containers at the end, seems less performant for no benefit.
There's a lot of focus on #journalist#Xitter to #Mastodon migration, but the overall story is quite a bit bigger I think.
The #Fediverse offers huge opportunity for independent journalism in a world where so much of #news media are consolidated and in the hands of shady mogul billionaires. In other words Fediverse is both a threat to existing business models, as well as market opportunity.
@smallcircles
To be fair, we get a sense that many instances are operated by those who are invested in highly questionable endeavours, which make them function similarly to a large corporation.
One of the goals of Fediverse proponents like us is to make setting up secure instances fairly easy, and not too burdensome. We think #Mastodon isn't able to provide such, but with #BloatFE and no javascript, maybe it can.
I don't think it's possible to stop the tide of meaningless text and spam that LLMs will wreak on an open system, but how do we build sustainable semi-closed ones? I really don't want Discord to be the end result, as it's both totally unsearchable and will get more and more user hostile over time, much like Reddit.
@freakboy3742
> Think containers, but for the entire server stack, with a UX For upgrades that is “click button, receive bacon”, with easy migration between hosting providers