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But I can’t put the instance above the needs of my family.” I’ve donated countless hours to running the instance, solving both technical and moderation problems, and I’ve always put the instance above my own needs. How I’ve come to resent the work I have volunteered to do. My interactions with him have not been positive and he now says: “This made me realize how little joy I’ve been getting from being an admin. “In accordance with the Mastodon Server Covenant, the server will be shut down no earlier than December 1, 2022.” “LinkedIn (Microsoft) has layoffs, Facebook will have a lot of layoffs soon (“Meta” is trying to deny it), Twitter is at the mercy of frauds, and the Free/federated/decentralised or even self-hosted alternatives aren’t doing too well either (stagnation at best).”“I have sad news that I have decided to shut down the mastodon.technology instance,” says the administrator. So mastodon.technology threw in the towel this isn’t surprising at all.

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We don’t want to recommend any host or software this post is explanatory and focuses on concepts, not endorsement of ‘brands’. Renting a domain name from a registrar is not that large an annual cost, or at least I hope it is not.” There are a lot of options from simple to complex, from doing it all yourself to outsourcing larger components. They’re also more censorship-resistant for all sorts of reasons.Īn associate has suggested “self-hosting one’s own blog.

Those have historically been a lot more age-proof and they can be portable.

By today’s bandwidth standards, RSS feeds are cheap. Centralisation (like “planets”) is undesirable, as usual, so passing around OPML files is just vastly better. Let this serve as an important and timely reminder: people need to run their own blogs/sites (simpler is better) and rely on RSS feeds for syndication.

It’ll be gone by year’s end with all the stuff ever posted to it. Summary: Not only does social control media lack a business model it lacks an incentive to participate and maintain as more people flee and move on to better things in lifeĮARLIER this year I argued that “ Social Control Media is a Bubble and JoinDiaspora Might be the Next Casualty” and by year’s end the other instance/pod that I use, this one in the Fediverse, is shutting down as well.

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