• Metawish
    4•3 years ago

    I’m exploring Yunohost as a general self-hosting solution which includes fediverse places like mastodon, pixelfed, and many others in the works. You just hit a button to install it and then boom, instance! The yunohost project even provides a domain name for people who don’t want to/can afford to pay for a domain name

      • @Gwynne@lemmy.mlOP
        2•3 years ago

        I don’t wanna use yunohost for that same reason. because it’ll be pretty embarrassing if I recommended yunohost for easy installation but it’ll then lead them to bigger problems they wouldn’t understand. sure, I can point out who to talk to, find solutions at. but that’ll mean I’m telling them they’ll have problems.

  • Dreeg Ocedam
    4•3 years ago

    You probably don’t want that. Even once you get past the technical hurdles (having a server, configuring eveything), which could be easily offered as a paying service, you would still be responsible from moderating the instance.

    • @Gwynne@lemmy.mlOP
      1•3 years ago

      I’m not talking about myself as I’m already know how to do just that. I just thought it would scare some people getting into the fediverse.

  • Relected
    2•3 years ago

    Did you really had to clarify that you are a human being? Are you secretly an alien?

  • poVoq
    2•3 years ago

    You need to have some basic technical know-how, but there are some fediverse software projects that have requirements similar to Wordpress and thus can be run on cheap php only webhosting.

    Hubzilla/Friendica/Zap and maybe Pixelfed fall in that general category.

    Since your instance will federate with others anyways it is probably best to make registration limited to yourself and friends/family.

    • @Gwynne@lemmy.mlOP
      2•3 years ago

      I’m asking this not for myself, but in case someone wanted to run an instance themselves and they’re not as tech savvy. but I guess they have to learn the basics still.

  • @fidibus@lemmy.161.social
    1•3 years ago

    These are the people who should start their own fediverse instance:

    • already existing group structures (they can do moderation themselves and get their instance managed by some admin they know or pay someone like masto.host)

    • people who have the technical knowledge can start a server for themselves and others, if they want to commit to the technical work it takes, they can make users etc help them with moderation

    Also it’s totally ok for someone to host a single user instance or test instance, but that’s more of a personal hobby thing imo