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1. p̸h̴o̸⁴c̵e̴ₓa̵ (pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jan-2022 01:42:43 UTC p̸h̴o̸⁴c̵e̴ₓa̵

   moxie said nobodys ever gonna run their own servers

   that prompted a lot of pushback on fedi, just have to make it easy to do so

   but also floated around this time was the idea of "community hosting"

   and that stuck with me and is really resonating, i want to reexamine all my projects with that in mind,

   - how to design towards federation
   - it's good actually if you "don't scale" because you want to limit the size of each instance

   who coined this?

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   • Kat MCP(NT4) MCSE(Win2K) (kat@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jan-2022 01:42:55 UTC Kat MCP(NT4) MCSE(Win2K)

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     @pho4cexa

     If I recall correctly...

     Evan who set up identi.ca in the ancient times wrote once that he wished he'd closed it off at 100k users, to encourage federation.

     When he moved everything over to the now defunct pump.io he set up many smaller pump.io instances and encouraged people to spread across them

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   • Your friendly 'net denizen (cstanhope@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jan-2022 06:21:21 UTC Your friendly 'net denizen

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     @pho4cexa I don't know if he coined it, but Darius Kazemi wrote this section in his "Run Your Own Social":

     "I'd like to advance the notion that software does not have to scale, and in fact software can be better if it is not built to scale."

     https://runyourown.social/#more-on-scale

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   • Polymer Witch (polymerwitch@social.polymerwitch.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jan-2022 06:21:38 UTC Polymer Witch

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     • Darius Kazemi

     @pho4cexa On fedi @darius has written about this and works on Hometown (a fork of mastodon with goals similar to this).

     I have also written a few things around masto taking the ideas of Appropriate Technology and applying it to digital tech ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology )

     Finally, a new book by James Muldoon, Platform Socialism, is about this but with a party Marxist view (which isn't my cup of tea, but might appeal to others).

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   • Derek Caelin (derek@sunbeam.city)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jan-2022 06:21:57 UTC Derek Caelin

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     • Your friendly 'net denizen

     @cstanhope @pho4cexa I did a research project a while back, and from interviews I I found that people from smaller servers had faster moderation experiences than people from larger servers.

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   • valhalla (valhalla@social.gl-como.it)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jan-2022 15:16:06 UTC valhalla

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     @pho4cexa I don't know who coined the term, but this is what our LUG has been doing and promoting for quite a long time, running this server on the fediverse and an xmpp one for chats.
     
     Both servers are only open to members of the LUG, but since we're all a herd of nerds some of us are also running other servers for family and non-nerd friends.
     
     And of course on our servers there are people who would never be able to run their own server, that's why we run it for them. And there are other people who don't have the time or skill to run a server, but are perfectly able to admin their own server on some service like masto.host.
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   • Noch Nicht Hier (nnh@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 21-Jan-2022 11:15:36 UTC Noch Nicht Hier

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     • Aral Balkan
     @pho4cexa @aral is working steadily to make hosting your personal website easy. Like really easy, like on your phone. Including Let's Encrypt setup.
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