Gregory's ServerThis looks so cool.
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  @vmstan Obviously privacy and security concerns there though. @hybridhavoc @vmstan @evan I’ve been thinking how cool it would be to run something like Takahe as a local instance, and expose it via Tailscale to the web. @hybridhavoc @vmstan @anildash Raspberry Pi doesn't allow commercial redistribution but there are other platforms, like BeagleBone, that do. Ideally it'd have dyndns and letsencrypt included, and could use upnp to ask the router to send ports 80 and 443 to it. You'd need to request the hostname at purchase time. It could be configured by the vendor and shipped to you. It could even be printed on the case! https://yourname.fedi-at-home.example/ I think it's a cool option.  @evan @anildash Sounds like neither you nor I want an account on Wildebeest, but I at least would like more ActivityPub users to talk to. I welcome anything that provides options to people whose plan B is Twitter. I'm building up quite a list of projects I'm really excited about despite having no plans to ever use them myself, starting with Mastodon. Very happy to add Wildebeest to the list!
   @evan ehhhh I don't think we should normalize or promote fediverse technologies that only work with a single vendor. Especially not with Cloudflare's track record. I disagree. Mastodon's current architecture clearly doesn't scale. Any alternative implementations and approaches should be welcomed and the source code is available. No-one's forcing you to use it. 'Wildebeest is an AP compatible server...with minimal setup and maintenance, and running in minutes'. The complexity of setting up a Mastodon instance dissuades many people (even techies) from doing so which inevitably hinders widespread adoption. I love compliant implementations of ActivityPub. Every new implementation adds to the health of the network. I also think CloudFlare's deployment platform is really interesting. If it were literally the only implementation, it'd be a point of concern. Otherwise, let a thousand flowers bloom. @evan Its an option, even though it only works on cloudflare. The question is, how good are the data liberation option? If all data can be exported and I can drop it easily in a different mastodon server that I host later on, then this is cool.  @evan no, this is just shamelesd EEE. Support independent non-corporate projects like @mastohost instead! |
@evan I’ve been really excited about new servers like Takahe, but I’m not sure why I want one that only runs on one company’s infrastructure