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hushpiper posted: What instance should I choose?
You: looking for a new, post-Tumblr home, interested in the decentralized communities and open source platforms of the fediverse, overwhelmed by all the choices and looking for a place to call home.
Me: here to help.
cesperanza posted: Signal Boost: TWiM, Issue 10: February 6, 2019
I am not your user-generated content! I am not your Amazon influencer! I don't need your real time approval! I am not writing fanfic to build an audience to sell them pop tarts or car wax or whatever the fuck the product is. I am desperately trying to be done with the commercialized interweb, people. I have the AO3 *hugs the AO3* and I am going to figure out out something else, something ad free, for social media*: and yes, btw, Hubzilla is coming along NICELY, but we have to figure out how to make it nice(r) for artists and vidders, because the OTW doesn't do that part well enough** , so we have to make this next thing do arts and vids well. But I am done done done done done*** with this sort of thing
muccamukk posted: Questions About Federation
What happens if whoever runs that instance flounces? Does the picture go bye? If not, where does it go, and who pays for hosting?
We're actually discussing this in the distributed fandom discord (link in post_tumblr_fandom). We're kicking the tired on the idea of a Mothership organization, which exists to back up people's data (opt-in) and provide a second home in case of flouncing/data loss. The mothership wouldn't be somewhere people actively hang out - it would just leverage those info exchange protocols (ActivityPub and Zot) to enable people to back up their data while hanging out on smaller fan-run servers. We'd also work with potential server admins to help them set up their own sites and back up their files to hedge against data loss.
There are many other answers to questions in this thread
cesperanza posted: Hey federated fans? you out there?
If you're within the sound of this post, and you're on a federated instance--hubzilla, mastedon, peertube, etc--and we're not already mutuals, can you comment to me? I'm really enjoying hubzilla and all the more so since I friended a bunch of fandom.ink people and some other fannish people on mastedon. FWIW, I'm over at [email protected].
And I am at [email protected]
Hubzilla’s core is built on a concept called Nomadic Identity, and it’s something that greatly differentiates Hubzilla from other federated platforms.
The idea is relatively simple: your channel does not have to be tied to a specific domain or a particular hub. Instead, it is entirely possible to migrate your posts, files, and contacts to another server, and you can connect multiple channels together to act as a relay system for every post you make.
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