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I’d love to see a “solo install” fediverse/activitypub setup. Like a true microblog, where my domain is just my content and people find/follow me based on my domain.

I guess it’s really just an evolution of RSS.

I’m running a Mastodon instance right now that people are free to join but it feels too heavy handed. I’d love a sports car not a school bus, if that makes sense.

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You could do that with e.g. https://microblog.pub/

Epicyon is also easy to set up:

⌘ https://epicyon.net/

Gemini is a bit like that (on a small scale). Basically everyone have their own tiny server somewhere to post on, and there is a widely adopted standard for how to publish "gemlogs" using just standard gemtext with links that begin with an ISO-date to produce something like RSS but much simpler. And then there is the Antenna site that anyone can broadcast their gemlog updates to by just pasting the gemlog URL in a form (and also various other gemlog aggregators, but Antenna seems to be the most popular one?).

Antenna would never scale the way it works now. Most things about Gemini probably would not scale. But there seems to be a low risk that it grows too much anyway.

I’m working on CalmGuava Mastodon for business[0]. The goal is to trim the fat and improve the “single entity” experience.

[0] - https://calmguava.com

the fediverse and business right now mix about as well as oil and water but it will be interesting to see how that evolves as it becomes mainstream.

Sure except that's up to instance owners. For instance tapbots (the makers of tweetbot (RIP, king) and Ivory (so good)) makes clients for mastodon and have made their own mastodon instance for their accounts. Nothing is stopping them from doing that. They have both 'people' accounts and 'app' accounts. Again nothing to stop them from doing that.

If some admin of some other mastodon server is so against any kind of commercialization of the mastodon timeline they are absolutely welcome to add the tapbots mastodon instance to their killfile and it's gone for people who host their accounts at that instance. They won't be able to see any posts sourced from the tapbots instance. However I don't think this is very likely and if they did this I suspect over time they would attract less and less users.

I do suspect more instance owners will be happy to block other instances that advertise themselves as 'free speech havens' or whatever the 4-chan kids are calling their 'wretched hives of scum and villainy' these days. I suspect most of their users will care less about those kinds of blocks.

It's very analogous to running your own mailservers.

Yeah I'm kinda in the same place. I'd like to see a fully mastodon compatible (like I can use a third party client like Ivory) but designed, and I'm not sure how to say this, to be less scalable and thus simpler. I'd like to run more than one account out of it, but less than maybe 20.

So far it hasn't been too much of a nightmare to run the 'full meal deal' but as someone that managed to avoid ruby for their whole career I find that I do not fully understand all the intricacies. Like I'm not sure a more svelte mastodon really needs a redis server, etc.

Akkoma (a Pleroma fork) is pretty well suited for this for microblogging.

I run my own single-user instance at https://ublog.fedi.bbrks.me

At some point, I plan on expanding that fedi subdomain into more federated/ActivityPub accounts of mine, like pixelfed for photos.

That does seem like interesting avenue. Just present blog as single user site then allow federated comments, with maybe some banlist if you get some unsavory commenters.

Tho that gets to the same problem as we had already - nothing stopping spammer from just creating new domain for each comment

Maybe this https://github.com/cloudflare/wildebeest ?

check out https://microblog.pub/

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