George Dorn
#Hometown is a neat fork of mastodon which implements (among other features) local-only posts, to build more community on a given instance.
There are a couple of these I'd want to join, but don't really want to manage even more accounts than I already do... Would there be any value in implementing an "honorary membership" account that behaves like it was a member of the server, but forwarded correspondence to a different account?
Or as another idea, honorary instances?
This could also solve another issue that comes up every now and then - whether to federate with every instance until they behave badly (the norm) or federate with nobody except those you trust, with both options having pros and cons...
Presumably another post security level could be used here, too, giving us:
- private (DM)
- followers-only
- local-only
- trusted-instances-only
- public
(Hometown: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown maintained by @darius )
There are a couple of these I'd want to join, but don't really want to manage even more accounts than I already do... Would there be any value in implementing an "honorary membership" account that behaves like it was a member of the server, but forwarded correspondence to a different account?
Or as another idea, honorary instances?
This could also solve another issue that comes up every now and then - whether to federate with every instance until they behave badly (the norm) or federate with nobody except those you trust, with both options having pros and cons...
Presumably another post security level could be used here, too, giving us:
- private (DM)
- followers-only
- local-only
- trusted-instances-only
- public
(Hometown: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown maintained by @darius )
#Hometown is a neat fork of mastodon which implements (among other features) local-only posts, to build more community on a given instance.
There are a couple of these I'd want to join, but don't really want to manage even more accounts than I already do... Would there be any value in implementing an "honorary membership" account that behaves like it was a member of the server, but forwarded correspondence...
There are a couple of these I'd want to join, but don't really want to manage even more accounts than I already do... Would there be any value in implementing an "honorary membership" account that behaves like it was a member of the server, but forwarded correspondence...
@gdorn yes, the "honorary instance" idea is something I have been working on, on and off, for a year. I call it a "neighborhood". I've attached an excerpt from a backers only patreon post about it here.