Post Av50o31aFms1X0Z0b2 by patrickleavy@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #Av4r0gn3EUi2nO9gyu by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-13T05:05:13Z
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In the fediverse, we are all the welcoming committee! If someone you know from elsewhere joins, make sure you interact with them, helping them feel welcome and included.* Reply to their posts, @mentioning people who might be interested in the topic.* Boost their best posts to help people find and follow them.* Subscribe to their feed to get a notification every time they post, so you remember.* encourage them to post an #introduction, to help fun folks find them.#FediTips #onboarding
(DIR) Post #Av50o31aFms1X0Z0b2 by patrickleavy@mastodon.social
2025-06-13T06:54:32Z
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@strypey My nonprofit, the Rebel Tech Alliance, want to encourage a mass walkout from #bigtech platforms by the end of 2025. If that walkout is to be towards the fediverse, which I hope it is, I worry about the inability of people to host their own servers.Are there any efforts to make this into a simple process that even a normie could achieve?#Deadline2025 #BigTechWalkout2025 #Reclaim2025 https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/index.html
(DIR) Post #Av50vmDsbcJrjr05lQ by mediarevolution@mastodon.social
2025-06-13T06:56:23Z
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@strypey 👏👏👏Such welcoming words and warm wisdom! It's as if you were hosting an event space IRL, right? New arrivals will integrate and interact much better with a little human support and gentle wayfinding advice!💚 Thank you for doing this for us!!
(DIR) Post #Av52GxdNTRulAJalyi by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-13T07:11:26Z
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@patrickleavy> I worry about the inability of people to host their own serversThis is the trickiest challenge to growing the fediverse. One approach would be to direct people to lists of existing open registration servers, and of hosting providers for new servers;https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/wiki/Hosting-services-offering-managed-fediverse-servers> Are there any efforts to make [hosting a fediverse server] into a simple process?@deadsuperhero?@liaizon?@smallcircles? @bob?=
(DIR) Post #Av52hYv7T2ugKrZj4S by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-13T07:16:15Z
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@mediarevolution> It's as if you were hosting an event space IRL, right?Exactly what I was thinking as I drafted the post : )
(DIR) Post #Av52tMZ7EEFnUauUOu by smallcircles@social.coop
2025-06-13T07:18:19Z
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@strypey @patrickleavy @deadsuperhero @liaizon @bob There are two #DelightfulCommons lists that you may consult here..They are cross-referenced from yet another fedi related list I just totally revamped. See:https://delightful.coding.social/delightful-fediverse-experience/#fediverse-hosting-providers
(DIR) Post #Av6QEsn96DJ3cqfAMC by openrisk@mastodon.social
2025-06-13T08:07:36Z
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@patrickleavy @strypey people can self-host in two ways: in their own premises and hardware (via NAS), on somebody else's premises and hardware (via VPS).In both cases lowering the threshold means single click installs.It further means a simplified and automated maintainance schedule for backups/recoveries, software updates etc.Its not trivial, but if we could get availability of such setups there could be orders of magnitude more servers.Maybe that would be enough to reverse the tide?
(DIR) Post #Av6QEtyWhO0JIQzljc by patrickleavy@mastodon.social
2025-06-13T16:16:39Z
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@openrisk yes the 'one click install' is what we need. (Or close to one click). I think Yunohost offer this, but you have to get them installed onto the hardware first 😬 More likely success will come from cloud hosting solutions with mastodon / peertube / pixelfed / lemmy already available ready to go. If it could become as commonly offered as regular web hosting that would be great. Not VPS, where you have to set up yourself - a managed solution.@strypey
(DIR) Post #Av6QEuzcumTiS8WA5Y by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-13T23:14:39Z
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@patrickleavy > success will come from cloud hosting solutions with mastodon / peertube / pixelfed / lemmy already available ready to goThis has been a thing for years. There's a (probably incomplete) list of vendors offering this here, some of them run by fedi veterans;https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/wiki/Hosting-services-offering-managed-fediverse-serversIf anyone knows of vendors missing from this list, or other lists I can check, please tag me. @openrisk #FediverseHosting
(DIR) Post #Av6SrKJHR21Tsu9X9M by nicholas@aklp.club
2025-06-13T23:44:07.368146Z
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If anyone knows of vendors missing from this list, or other lists I can check, please tag me.Btrf.lyIs cofespace.com still a thing?
(DIR) Post #Av6Ux9SosDEDtLWJ04 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-14T00:07:28Z
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@nicholas> Btrf.lyThanks, I'll add that today.> Is cofespace.com still a thing?No."I have since shifted focus to Revolver. The idea is that it accomplishes the goals of FSE and CofeSpace and can replace both."https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/@openrisk @patrickleavy
(DIR) Post #Av8SvCVCnIot8zUvUu by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-14T22:54:06Z
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Ok, btrf.ly is added to the list of active hosting services, and I've added cofespace to the Discontinued list.@nicholas@openrisk @patrickleavy
(DIR) Post #Av9GjAbJ2AJfTmoAU4 by patrickleavy@mastodon.social
2025-06-15T08:11:16Z
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@strypey @nicholas @openrisk btrf.ly looks good, but to a normie it's confusing.So the reaction is "Instead of a list of fediverse apps to host they present me with Rebased + Soapbox. What are they? Have I come to the wrong place?"
(DIR) Post #Av9tBJIS5oVeodpojw by nicholas@aklp.club
2025-06-15T15:23:10.976033Z
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Yeah, the workflow is a bit confusing, it seems like the webstore app they use never contemplate the possibility of a single service being offered.
(DIR) Post #Av9u55Djc9Q3NODsTg by xz25@opensocial.at
2025-06-15T01:13:00Z
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@nicholas @strypey @patrickleavy @openrisk your mom is a thing
(DIR) Post #Av9u5686EaVQCCatKi by nicholas@aklp.club
2025-06-15T15:33:15.243977Z
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Zing?
(DIR) Post #AvAMAuP3Xl1gHT5IoK by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-06-15T20:47:58Z
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@patrickleavy > btrf.ly looks good, but to a normie it's confusingHave you looked at some of the other providers on the list?TBH I don't expect total newbies to set up their own servers. For initial onboarding I'd focus on the various server list sites, like;https://instances.social/Organised groups can create their own curated list based on their own experiences in the verse, and the needs of the people they want to bring in.Any thoughts @mastodonmigration? @nicholas @openrisk