Matt Lorentz @matt@mstdn.io
Sinner saved by grace. Husband. Software Developer.
Hypothetically, let's say I spun up my own Mastodon instance, and then I registered my own account on it, and then I froze registrations at just me. This way, I'd be hosting my own account but nobody elses'
Is this a really stupid idea? Does it break a bunch of mastodon features? Would it be a giant pain in the ass to run?
People still keep asking me how federation works. So I made two images to show the difference.
Image 1:
"Centralized"
That's how Facebook and Twitter work.
Most things really.
Pretty self-explanatory.
Image 2:
"Federated"
That's Mastodon.
People connect to servers and the servers share data with each other.
E-mail also works like this. It's why you can send mails from Gmail to Hotmail
https://masto.quad.moe/media/spa5SiLGBC531mPBrLc https://masto.quad.moe/media/PUrPoXFrdYHC0omPfE4
Wonder what the http://micro.blog dude thinks about all this.
I've been on here for all of 15 minutes and I already want to self-host. Need account migration first though https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177
Birdsite grew from 20k to 60k users between March 9-13, 2007, due to its showcase at SXSW.
It then grew to 1.3M users in by 2008.
Mastodon has approx. 88,000+ users across our combined instances now.
Things are looking good for us!
Obligatory Hello World! I'm here to support yet another decentralized social network.
