That’s fair. Similar situations, different conclusions 🙂

I had similar plans, but I opted for a seedbox instead. It gives me some peace of mind not torrenting on my own IP.

a custom distro

…or just a pre-exsting one. Heck, they should just make it a point to support open source development.

Don’t worry, most of us won’t. It’ll trickle down through abstraction layers from CLW level work to us end users eventually 🙂

Sorry, they have a separate one for Lemmy! Got my wires crossed.

There are two separate apps for Mastodon and Friendica though, right? Or did I misremember?

You said it yourself — you’re new to self hosting, and CasaOS fits what you want to host. As a starting point for getting rid of hosted services, go with that for a start.

Sure, you won’t immediately be getting your hands dirty mucking about with dockers and stuff, but you will have your working home server. For learning and experimentation, I second @Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com’s plan B — use another machine to test building the same setup on a base Linux system.

If you’re like me you probably have an old laptop lying around that wouldn’t be great as an always up, day to day server, but as a testing environment to mess around with docker containers it should be fine?

I use Baïkal on a no-frills webhost. It’s been running for years without problems.

Plus the Android app on f-droid.

Who hurt you?

greybeards dunking on you because you’re not a “real” linuxer

Oh, right. I see.

They’re like Cylons

THERE ARE MANY COPIES

AND THEY HAVE A PLAN

androids can’t do base distro’s anymore?

I’ll be honest, I never tried. Seeing that there are projects working independently to bring Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch to Android, I’d guess no? Plus I know you can run any distro in an emulator within Android systems, but that feels more like a curiosity.

Shocker! Good for them, course literature costs a literal fortune.

So, 15 years later we’re worse off than then? Argh.

Out of curiosity, was it “just” a plain Debian system, or did it support touch screen and phone service?

I didn’t bother clicking through, so grain of salt — wouldn’t torrent indexers and search sites also be included in this many site blocks? Streaming sites seems to be the lowest hanging fruit.

very limited ability to self-brand

I mean, yeah. Especially when the content of your flawlessly customised site is federated to thousands other activity pub enabled sites with different stylesheets and aesthetics. That isn’t a problem with Mastodon per se, it’s just the nature of federation.

I do agree with your broader point that Mastodon has become synonymous with fediverse microblogging, which again is what most people associate with the fediverse, period.

Oh, still is.

“Lemmy is terrible!”

“Have you tried kbin?”

“kbin isn’t developed, try mbin”

“I tried mbin, but piefed is better”

“I only use the comments section of federated Wordpress blogs, by email”

“Zomg you guys, somebody launched qbin”

30% self-congratulatory talk about how popular bluesky is this week.

TBF, Mastodon was the same when I joined. I just muted all mention of “mastodon” + variations, Bob’s your uncle. Navel gazing meta discourse is the least exciting updates on any platform.

It is still funny to visit random egg profiles on there and see they only tooted once, two years ago, saying “so this is mastodon, wonder how this works” and then never again.

I’m not criticising my right to put in extra work to make promising efforts available on platforms that do not track users; I criticise the fact that the developers didn’t do this in the first place.

But good work putting the onus on me, you complete corporate rando.

Nice idea, will follow how this develops, but — FFS, the pack CSVs are all on Google Docs.

Independent, trustworthy repository, plz.