[kwlug-disc] Trust in Musk.. or go to NextCloud

[Doug Moen]

There is a flood of Twitter users joining Mastodon since the recent acquisition.
Can't find the link, but I read that Mastodon membership is up ~20% or over 100,000 new users so far, and popular servers are struggling with the load.

The @joinmastodon Twitter account points out that running your own Mastodon instance is cheaper than paying for a blue checkmark on the new Twitter. But how easy is that? Perhaps NextCloud Social is easier to set up and maintain than a Mastodon instance?

But I imagine that it's not as easy as just running the software. During the 20th century I ran my own email server, but it's impossible today because the big servers won't peer with you if you have a residential IP address. Similarly, I imagine you need to convince other Mastodon instances to peer with you, which I imagine they won't do if your content violates their content policies. If a 100,000 new single-person NextCloud Social instances were to suddenly appear, would they just seamlessly become part of the Fediverse, as if 100,000 new Twitter accounts were created, or would this create chaos? There are only a few thousand Mastodon instances today. I don't actually know how this works, I haven't used the Fediverse.

On Thu, Nov 3, 2022, at 1:39 AM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> Nextcloud uses the ActivityPub protocol, compatible with many other 
> services: GNUsocial, Mastodon and Pleroma for microblogging, Friendica 
> and Hubzilla for long-form social media, PeerTube for video sharing, 
> PixelFed for photo sharing, and others.
>
> All the microblogging and long-form social media clients and services 
> are compatible. I regularly receive Friendica and Hubzilla messages on 
> my GNUsocial and Mastodon accounts.
>
> It should be possible to use any of the clients to get messages from any 
> of the services, f'rinstance, getting messages from PeerTube on your 
> GNUsocial account. I haven't done this (yet).
>
> --Bob, who is @bobjonkman at gs.jonkman.ca and @bobjonkman at mastodon.sdf.org
>
>
>
> On 2022-10-31 16:00, Doug Moen wrote:
>> What's the provenance? Is it a fork of Mastodon or something else? Why begin a new Mastodon compatible project?
>> 
>> On Mon, Oct 31, 2022, at 2:50 PM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
>>> Here's an interesting idea now that Elon owns Twitter:
>>>
>>> https://nextcloud.com/blog/no-need-to-trust-musk-we-go-federated-with-nextcloud-social/
>>>
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