building your own mastodon server is stupid

[solarbird]

but, well, i have the dumb, so i made one lol

dunno if i'm gonna keep it yet but

@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net

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[wrog]

Anything in particular that's making it stupid?

Admittedly, I'm sort of unclear on how this decentralized social media thing is supposed to work. Are there well-known servers that people trust? Who runs them?

Or are you concerned about how you're going to get people to trust your own server? Have the mastodon developers come up with a good way to do reputation scoring?

Or is this like running your own email server, (where the moment you open port 25 you get buried in spam)?

[prettyarbitrary]

I hope you find you enjoy it!

Or...that you don't and you get those hours of your life back. :D

But tbh I admire the effort. It's an interesting learning experience, and if you find it worthwhile there are lots of people out there looking for a place to land right now!

[merelydovely]

Where do the servers themselves live? I assumed one bought space through a hosting service or something rather than going through Mastodon itself, although I guess it would make sense for Mastodon to sell server space...

(I realize I could easily google this, but it would be cool to have it casually explained by someone I know!)

[merelydovely]

You've probably seen this floating around - advice to US-based instance admins about how to prepare for possible DMCA notices in the future: https://twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1593819064161665024