@rikudou Its open source. The owner will die … the software can live forever.

@KazuchijouNo Just install something like WordPress which generates RSS of posts automatically. Bonus you can add the Activitypub plug in and syndicate your content with Mastodon etc.

@Tugboater203 @throwawayacc0430 It’s just them moving the IP addresses they have around to other parts of their network. Nothing wrong with that. The companies that geocode IP numbers will update their databases eventually.

@Blisterexe Well so many businesses do this because they believe that the vendor will somehow charge less if they can reuse that code… but if its highly customised thats unlikely . it just becomes a case of pushing the costs down the road.

Not many postal banking businesses in the world

@yak So this is an interesting thing. Obviously the functionality required by the #PostOffice is to a degree bespoke - but not considering ownership was a critial failure of the contracting process.

Interestingly I think that there is something that every #creditunion that outsources its #corebanking and other IT should consider - How locked into that offering they are and what happens if they want to change? #Opensource #banking solutions offer the ability to both switch vendors and also customise to their requirements realitively easily - I’m not sure how many use solutions based on #mifos or #fineract - I guess they are still fairly new.

@EarMaster I’m going to say that if you are doing it for wider family that might still be worth it (given that you can get a private stream and your network feed might be more relevant for other family members - But then it is a case of bringing your family along with you… If you are doing other stuff for them (email, file sharing , device management - Then maybe an ActivityPub server becomes a bit of an addon

@Ulrich Ia really think the idea of having a ‘common bond’ is a good idea to stick to. Whether thats ‘my family ’ or ’ members of my sailing club’ or ’ people i went to school with’ Anything beyond that you want some legal structures between you and the users to provide a level of protection

Now I can’t help them when it comes to #gotosocial - So perhaps others can chip in.

My thoughts were that with separate subdomains (or domains ) in Yunohost you can separate out instances for Family/Friends and the group they belong to but

I’m also aware that some #ActivityPub servers can run multiple separte instances for different groups while optimising federation - I think #takake did that - but again I don’t know much about that approach -

When it comes to the questiona bout being maintained. THat is a question a group I belong to has been considering since they worry about having to maintain infrastructure for a Sports Club and don’t want to get bogged down in keeping the lights on - Here I guess I think using templates where possible (which I think Yunohost is kind of ) and professional support for #Opensource solutions might come in handy . (people like #autonomic I guess - or just having enough people in your group to provide the support…

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> Have a look at lemmy.world/c/selfhosted - If you have a group of family >or friends I think its a good way to get them on board and curate an instance
> that is useful for them.

interesting use case, but is it possible to separate friends and family members on the instance somehow? Because it sounds really good to protect all people who are close to you, but they don’t have to know what the “other chatroom” is about.

And the link gave me flashbacks, because I tried to create my own lemmy instance. I worked every day for a month on it to throw it away in the end. It had so many bugs and a few seconds after my instance was online, I had weird conversations in my database, which couldn’t be seen in the UI. And talking about the issues with the creator of lemmy was a little bit a pain, too.

After this, I’ve started a classical forum (flarum), because it looked like the fediverse is doing weird things, like polluting the database with garbage.

> Doesnt need to be Mastodon - could be Friendica or Gotosocial

I don’t get the concept of gotosocial? It’s like having a Mastodon instance with yourself. How do people find you?

I guess it’s not made for creators, but for nerdy consumers, right?

> Lots of ways to simplify the process - I use Yunohost gives me Email, >Nextcloud and ActivityPub for friends and family

That’s for sure, but there is still the problem that it must be maintained and if you already have a community, it would be really easy, but without a community or even people who know what this is, you have to do it all by your own. This could be stressful and depressing (imho).

> Ideally Id eventually like to see something like this packaged into a router like > OpenWrt One

gotosocial looks like it could work, but not for the whole family :D

To which I replied:

To which I replied :

Have a look at lemmy.world/c/selfhosted - If you have a group of family or friends I think its a good way to get them on board and curate an instance that is useful for them.

Doesnt need to be #Mastodon - could be #Friendica or #Gotosocial

Lots of ways to simplify the process - I use #Yunohost gives me Email, Nextcloud and ActivityPub for friends and family

Ideally Id eventually like to see something like this packaged into a router like #openwrtone One

@sarahsquirrel DM me…

@sarahsquirrel #UX is an interesting thing with ActivityFed since choice or service, server and UI are all kind of independent. e.g. I use #Lemmy communities alot via a #Friendica server that I sometimes access via web UI and othertimes via #Fedilab as such you could actually help with UX of lemmy by contributing to #Friendica or #Fedilab as well.

Regards your local group perhaps #friendica might provide a fuller set of features or indeed you could spin up something like #Yunohost and run a Friendica and #lemmy service for them (and throw in some #Nextcloud to)

@callcc Would love to …cant wait for a true highspeed #paris - #barcelona or #paris - #madrid service. With better #crossborderrail we might even get to sit next to each other. #europeansleeper might even get us in the same bed. Imagine #London to Barcelona overnight. Id probably almost never sleep at home

I can report that our test of Briar worked perfectly… (Except it was accidentally called Brian at some point… ) I can see that sticking. - Our test was somewhat short circuited by #Ryanair’s decision to actually seat us together in an #exitrow for once. #extralegroom baby!

@Gayhitler For some flights i request a lap belt and ask to sit on his neighbours lap for the duration.

@Gayhitler Oh yeah … we also considered both sign language and private jets but the couldn’t agree on what type of either.

Of course #briar I knew I downloaded that for a reason.