Mastodon server used by HN users?

[bishes]

Twitter drama is through the roof. Although I'm confident the social media giant is not going anywhere anytime soon. I want to inquire if HN users have started migrating to Mastodon, and which servers they're using to do so.

[metadat]

Yes, I got on https://mastodon.sdf.org/. So far so good.

Edit: the reply is now deleted, but someone asked why I picked this server. I researched sdf.org and found they've been around a long time (20+ years) and the server rules seemed reasonable and not overly narrow or restrictive. Also, I actually got the registration email from this one, I tried some others and never got the promised email.

[kazinator]

Why did you pick that?

It's not obvious how to choose a fediverse instance to join.

[gamjQZnHT53AMa]

Pick one that aligns with your interests, even superficially. You can migrate accounts between instances if you feel you made a mistake.

[Finnucane]

I got on social.linux.pizza. I wasn't a twitter user before though, I just thought this was a good time to try Mastadon, with the increased activity.

[saurik]

I would have hoped your average Hacker News user would run their own server, but I am often disappointed as seemingly many people don't even run their own email servers :(.

Mastadon seems particularly in need of a mechanism where you can get a hosted domain option, where you can easily just point a DNS record at some large instance and have it work as easily as email does after you point an MX at Google or Microsoft.

[Finnucane]

It doesn't seem worth the effort unless you have some use case--a particular community you want to cater to, or an organization that wants to control identities on a domain. As an individual, it seems a better choice to go with an established server, and kick in a few bucks on patreon or whatever as needed.

[geoah]

Was looking into this and seems kind of a pain. Too many moving parts and unclear best practices. Matrix imo does self hosting nicely with dendrite. You get two options: monolith or multiple services. Monolith will use in process queues etc instead of having them as separate processes/containers.

[cpach]

There are Mastodon hosting companies that offer services like that.

Here’s one example: https://masto.host/

[mg]

I will use MicroBlogPub on my own domain:

https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub

It seems to have the leanest code base.

I am currently putting together a setup script for it.

It has an install documentation here:

https://docs.microblog.pub/installing.html#python-developer-...

I prefer a single script to this type of "first do this, then do that, then ..." tutorials. So I will write a script first, that let's you install MicroBlogPub on a fresh VPS without having to do anything.

[rufius]

I’ve been on bsd.network for a while. Mostly because I do BSD adjacent things and some folks I know peripherally are there too. L

[OctopusLupid]

I'm running my own server for my friends.