[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/