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Hosted Fediverse for Family? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Do you host any Fediverse instances for family (Mastodon, etc)? Curious if you get your family to use it and what headaches when linking to other instances.

Seems like a nice way to combine group texts, picture sharing, etc

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I run my own Mastodon instance. My wife uses it too. It is open to my family, but none have moved this way yet - more of a “not using mastodon” than “not your mastodon”. Easy to link to other instances. I use a docker based instance of mastodon with the db and nginx running on an Azure VM running Ubuntu. Easy to patch, and update. I spent days getting it running right (learning, tearing down, rinse, repeat) but now it is a few minutes a month maintaining. Let me know if you have any questions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ya....getting them to use something new is the hard part.