gauffke

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The thing is (IMHO), fediverse communities are spread but they are not « fragmented ». That’s the beauty of it, no matter where they are, they’re not isolated from each other.

Forever it’s been like that, even before the internet. Communities come and go, and seeing them go can be sad… but when hosted centrally by large corporations, maybe those communities were not at a healthy place. In that case, the place dies, the communities go someplace else, I do hope they go to a healthy place like the fediverse, and they can live « prosper » (socially instead of financially)?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It’s a pity. I believe there is a lot of potential in selling hosting of such solutions. But thx!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seriously, thanks :-)
Do you host several services (for example kbin+mastodon)? Am I correct that it's via different ports that you an then target different services?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)
 

Hey All,
I'd like to self-host a Mastodon and kbin instance, but without the hassle of the actual hardware management nor the uptime. I've heard of #yunohost but wonder if there are other alternatives?
Can I buy my own domain name and use it for 2 services (like Mastodon and kbin?
Many thanks!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Everyone, I want to say a big thank you! The example you gave me really helped me out. For the sake of clarity, I indeed only need 1 account, and I’ll stick to kbin for now.

The things I still keep in mind, and feel free to comment if any of this is wrong or stupid 😅

  • maybe it’s better having 1 login on 1 smaller and more local instance than a huge one like kbin.social. If I get it right, kbin.social is a great instance to minimise the « entry cost », but the best is to keep instances reasonably small. However, the smaller the instance is, the bigger the risk is that it disappears (together with your account).
  • on the short term, I will closely follow the developments of those apps!
  • on the longer term, I’m curious whether there is a benefit to have 1 single account for all fediverse services (like mastodon AND kbin). On the one hand, it makes perfect sense, with « distributed login ». On the other hand, putting all your eggs in 1 basket seems to be , on the client side, the opposite of what we want to do at server at side: spread! In that aspect, profile backups will probably be key!

Thanks again guys!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Many thanks! Even if I must confess that since I’m confused on the question of Lemmy and kbin accounts, I don’t dare putting mastodon in the equation 😅

 

Hey All,
I’m an (old 😉) IT guy, very excited by the #fediverse and trying to find my way amongst various services.

As an example, I started gathering topics I like on a Lemmy account. Then, I got tempted to create different accounts on smaller instances and try out kbin.

I’d love that my « subscriptions » follow me, so that I don’t have to scan all my « magazines » and re-register from everywhere.

Can someone kindly help me on how I can achieve that? Apologies if the question is naive, but given the decentralised nature of those services, shouldn’t each user have a « local » trace of what they follow (for example on a local app), no matter the service, so that they get « their view », their « window » on the #fediverse?

Many thanks for the #fedihelp and again my apologies for the probably basic questions!