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Earlier today a comrade got a pretty good tankie instance for Mastodon on this post of theirs. So I was thinking, due such things exist for other federated platforms such as Pixelfed and Peertube? And if so, which are the best for our purposes?

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[–] sovietsnake@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

No, there are not other, and I think we should proceed with care. Hosting fees are a burden specially for something that might die, I don't think a Pixelfed instance would be so useful now since the platform in general doesn't have much activity as Mastodon does. On the PeerTube case, it would be nice, but videos require a lot of storage space, increasing hosting fees even more, so it gets complicated.

We also have a Matrix instance, which is hosted by Genzedong people.

A BookWyrm instance where book clubs could be formed around would be a really nice idea.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago

These are good points. Is there also a danger that someone with bad intentions can offer to host federated instances? That may be more of an issue where hosting requires more than a server on a Raspberry Pi…

Otherwise, it's nice to know what other online spaces exist, but I wonder how many are needed. I suppose people want different things from their social media, but I can't really manage more than one at a time. Respect for those who can juggle multiple platforms at once!

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whoa, I'd totally be up for hosting a bookwyrm instance. I'll forward this to the mod team.

2nded on peertube. It's wonderful software, but it's a massive hard drive expense for anyone who runs one, and not as good as just using torrents for the same purpose.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

(I've lost track: do you still have a personal downvoter? Or does someone dislike books or torrents?)

[–] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its a personal downvoter, I know who it is, nbd.

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