Smallweb Chatter Post

[kalloway]

Hi smallweb! Let's chat!

Chatter posts are irregularly-occurring posts to... chat in. Show off what you're working on, what cool stuff you've found lately, what's going well or not so well or anything else. Stop in to say Hi if you want.

Comments

[taichara]

Still arguing with myself for and against spinning up a private fedi instance.

[tempural]

Could I hear what your pros and cons are? 😃 It seems so cool that you CAN host your own fedi instance, though I don't know what I'd do with such technology...

[taichara]

I wouldn't be running the server (though that can be done, just not by me), but hosting the instance, yes.

Short form is:

* pro:
- current instance is nice but has hands-off/invisible modding; I could do my own modding
- block/limit/defederate any other instance I need to without relying on the above
- current instance is also sloggy and occasionally bungles its certs, if I move I might as well move all the way

* con:
- paying for server hosting/maintenance (+ possibly domain); not huge costs but something to keep in mind
- absolute lack of energy to tackle actually doing the thing
- see above but substitute making sure my account migration works
- have to do my own modding even at Maximum Fuckhole Capacity[tm]

[tempural]

Oooh I can definitely see being able to mod your own stuff being a plus. But that one big con is having to do your own modding.. it really takes so much energy to mod a 10 person discord server, let alone a fedi server that can connect to a million other people! I think I'm more than willing to let someone else handle the modding for me cuz of that reason 😅

[taichara]

One difference being if a federated server full of fuckwits is being a problem -- or can be seen as likely to be one -- it can just be blocked at the root and it would never grace my digital door, even if I'm already being faced with Maximum Fuckwit Capacity ...

I can limit how many -- if any at all! -- can actually join any hypothetical instance.