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Molly White

i am much more willing to be a chaos gremlin on twitter knowing i have my own platform-of-one to fall back on, and it's freeing

18 Dec 2022 at 19:27 | Open on hachyderm.io
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Allan Chow
Carey Lening :blobcatverified:

@molly0xfff
There is something supremely liberating about hosting my own Masto instance. I have control, know where the data is (including backups), and know who has access to my DMs.

I don't really think it's for everyone, but it is a good thing if you're so inclined (or have good friends who can help).

18 Dec 2022 at 22:27 | Open on dataprotection.social
Eodyne

@privacat @molly0xfff After first setting up on an instance (one of the few accepting new signupns during the last big wave) run by a virulent antivaxxer, I ended up setting up my own on a Raspberry Pi and a domain I've owned "just because" for several years.
It's been nice to have my own little island here.

18 Dec 2022 at 23:26 | Open on izzodlaw.com
Carey Lening :blobcatverified:

@IzzoD @molly0xfff I opted for hosting (on Infomaniak) largely because my home internet connection is flakey as hell, but it is lovely. :)

18 Dec 2022 at 23:29 | Open on dataprotection.social
Eodyne

@privacat @molly0xfff I'll certainly quickly run into issues if I were to decide to let anyone else sign up. I figure the Pi can handle at best 5-10 accounts max.
But I don't imagine I'd that for anyone but immediate family anyway.

18 Dec 2022 at 23:30 | Open on izzodlaw.com
Sean Reiser

@privacat @molly0xfff anyone who has been on the web for any period of time has lost content due to a service shutting down, so you get an additional level of safety by rolling your own.

19 Dec 2022 at 3:55 | Open on social.seanreiser.com
Carey Lening :blobcatverified:

@seanreiser
Contrapoint: anyone who has been on the web for any period of time and rolled their own has lost content due to a hard disk failure/no backups, or losing their password/user credentials.

🙃

@molly0xfff

19 Dec 2022 at 8:22 | Open on dataprotection.social
blausand 🐟

@privacat @seanreiser @molly0xfff
Not forgetting software that just won't eat it's own backups (OAndBackup, now Neo Backup), Software that fails migrating (Owncloud to Nextcloud), Operating systems deliberately sabotaging backup solutions (Android), and Backup solutions refusing to use standardized file systems (Windows System Backup requires ntfs).

19 Dec 2022 at 16:58 | Open on chaos.social
avislash

@molly0xfff let chaos reign or is it toot in this case?

18 Dec 2022 at 23:18 | Open on cryptodon.lol
Rob Landley

@molly0xfff I like closure. I deleted my Twitter, and am trying to remember to back up my Mastodon weekly.

Apparently I need to run my own instance to import the historical post feed I downloaded though. Or at least my instance wouldn't let me do it. (Metadata like follow and block list yes, post history no.)

19 Dec 2022 at 6:41 | Open on mstdn.jp
Nuki: The Littlest Pervert

@molly0xfff I am much more willing to be a chaos gremlin on Mastodon when I have this account where y'all don't know who I am on hachyderm. :P

It is also freeing.

19 Dec 2022 at 21:21 | Open on yiff.life
Emile Silvis

@molly0xfff any good self-hostable alternatives for Substack?

19 Dec 2022 at 21:50 | Open on mastodon.social
Molly White

@hopeful_discovery i've heard good things about ghost! i used it maybe a decade ago so i can't personally vouch for it these days

19 Dec 2022 at 22:09 | Open on hachyderm.io
Glitch
@hopeful_discovery @molly0xfff maybe heresy to suggest but: Wordpress?

From my experience with substack, it seems to just be another blogging engine and there's few blogging engines as easy to use for non-technical users as Wordpress. Plenty of managed options out there as well, including letting Automattic handle all the technical stuff.

If you're more technically minded, then just go the static site generator road.
@hopeful_discovery @molly0xfff maybe heresy to suggest but: Wordpress?

From my experience with substack, it seems to just be another blogging engine and there's few blogging engines as easy to use for non-technical users as Wordpress. Plenty of managed options out there as well, including letting Automattic handle all the technical stuff.
20 Dec 2022 at 15:44 | Open on pl.glitch.pm
David Gerard
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