Mastodon server used by HN users? Twitter drama is through the roof. Although I'm confident the social media giant is not going anywhere anytime soon. I want to inquire if HN users have started migrating to Mastodon, and which servers they're using to do so. |
Edit: the reply is now deleted, but someone asked why I picked this server. I researched sdf.org and found they've been around a long time (20+ years) and the server rules seemed reasonable and not overly narrow or restrictive. Also, I actually got the registration email from this one, I tried some others and never got the promised email.
It's not obvious how to choose a fediverse instance to join.
Mastadon seems particularly in need of a mechanism where you can get a hosted domain option, where you can easily just point a DNS record at some large instance and have it work as easily as email does after you point an MX at Google or Microsoft.
Here’s one example: https://masto.host/
https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub
It seems to have the leanest code base.
I am currently putting together a setup script for it.
It has an install documentation here:
https://docs.microblog.pub/installing.html#python-developer-...
I prefer a single script to this type of "first do this, then do that, then ..." tutorials. So I will write a script first, that let's you install MicroBlogPub on a fresh VPS without having to do anything.