Hi Dansup, welcome to our server!

I do host some stuff myself 😉 but there’s one thing to keep in mind.

Don’t self host stuff that your family still needs after you’re gone. Unless they are self host nerds like you. I stopped self hosting our mail and docs for example.

Would you agree?

I did register writefreely.world planning to host that one day, but I need some more selfhosting nerds to help out running all these instances :-) The foundation is now already running a few dozen Fedi instances :-D

I run a pixelfed and misskey on the same server, and used to run a mastodon besides that. No issues. (I use docker)

Mastodon.social has the default 500 character limit. There are a few which have changed that (because it’s not a configurable setting). Most large servers on this list aren’t blocking too many others and aren’t blocked by others https://fedidb.org/software/mastodon (Maybe don’t choose mstdn.jp)

I host https://mastodon.world myself but there are many others like it. For me, choices could be based on:

• What’s the server topic (if any)
• Is the server run by a single person, or a team? (For continuity reasons, but this info is mostly hard to find)
• Can I agree with the server rules?

Also, you could consider other platforms which are similar to Mastodon, and can communicate with Mastodon, but might have some features you prefer which Mastodon hasn’t’t (like quote posts, bigger character limit etc). For my personal account, I use Sharkey (https://sharkey.world is mine too), but you can also consider Pleroma, Friendica and many many others.

Sorry if I made the choice more complicated… and let me know if you have questions.

Yes. At the NLNet stand.

I did get Lemmy stickers of course

I am there. But will leave soon

I use 2do which isn’t free but works very well!

Ahh yes I meant as opposed to Twitter and Facebook. But I worded it badly 😁

For moderators surely Mastodon. For admins too… For users: that’s a taste-thing. I’m not a developer so can’t say…

Yeah somewhere between twitter and facebook clone, more like Mastodon. But open-source and federated, like Lemmy.

Well I’m the owner of lemmy.world, and I’m Dutch. But still I know what Thanksgiving is, and many users are from the US, so why not?

But I do agree we should also feature days like the Trans day of Remembrance. Maybe we could create a community-created list of special days?

Depends on what sort of invoices. For my invoices for billable hours, I use Kimai

Too bad fire.fish is also gone…

Very cool!!

It’s created by @dansup@mastodon.social who also created Pixelfed

When I turned 50 this year…

(I’ll add links / descriptions later)

I host the following fediverse stuff:

• Lemmy (you’re looking at it)
• Mastodon (3 instances)
• Calckey oh sorry, now FireFish
• Pixelfed
• Misskey
• Writefreely
• Funkwhale
• Akkoma (2 instances)
• Peertube

And these are other things I host:

• Kimai2
• Matrix/Synapse
• Silver Bullet
• XWiki (3 instances)
• Cryptpad (2 instances)
• Gitea
• Grafana
• Hedgedoc
• Minecraft
• Nextcloud
• Nginx Proxy Manager
• Paperless-ngx
• TheLounge
• Vaultwarden
• Zabbix
• Zammad

Anything that the family uses. Because when I cease to exist, my wife isn’t gonna take over self-hosting! So e-mail, chat, documents etc.