 General #hometown development note: I am using the US holiday coming up on Friday to do a ton of Hometown work. Catching up on Github issues and PRs, and looking at the Mastodon v4 code to see how much work it's going to be to remain compatible there. (for those new here, Hometown is my fork of Mastodon with small community features, https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki ) 17 comments
@darius When you write "Hometown is a light weight fork of Mastodon. ", am I correct that you mean that in the sense of not being very different? Or is it light weight in the sense of running more efficiently or not needing as many server resources? @knewman I mean it in terms of being 99.99999% identical to Mastodon. I think the sentence after the light weight quote explains this, but maybe I should clarify? > This fork is based on the principle of: minimum code change for maximum user experience change. @darius I think that as people are discovering some scaling issues, they might look for alternatives that don't require such a big server, and they might be initially confused. Pleroma or GoToSocial might be what they want? You are offering something more like an add-on set of features for Mastodon, rather than a differently architected implementation (right?) @knewman completely correct. I have updated the language: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/blob/hometown-dev/README.md @knewman btw Hometown's answer to scaling is: for the love of god please keep your server to 100-200 active users at the most, both for moderation reasons and community building reasons @schuyler forgive me but I try to document this stuff extensively. The key features are listed at the above link and each feature page (except for themes) has a "Why, How, and Who" section explaining the rationale for each feature, how it works, and who was involved @darius Hooray! We are loving Hometown and look forward to its continued development. @kfitz oh lovely! I wasn't aware of your server. May I add it to the wiki here? https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki/Hometown-servers @darius Please! We just launched yesterday. Still working out some configuration kinks (Sidekiq! :shakes fist:) but the community is really energized. |
Gregory's Server
@darius Let me know if you need any help there!