Hosting your own Mastodon server
https://paulstamatiou.com/hosting-your-own-mastodon-server/Mastodon just keeps getting better. There's more authentic conversations and far less linkbait and thread spam from influencers. It feels like a place I'd prefer spending more of my time to catch up on things.
With my interest in Mastodon, I recently decided I wanted to take the next step and host my own Mastodon server for my account: @stammy@stammy.design. In my previous post about Mastodon I provided some details about different routes you could take to self-host Mastodon. Today, I'll show you how you can host your own Mastodon instance, step-by-step.
And enjoy some 60 screens worth of detailed explanation. You would use only a subset, since they cover different hosting options.
Pretty massive.
Links in his domain seem empty (is it my ad-blocker?) but links in the article, based on a quick check, seem OK.
If you're interested, go for it.
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It took me a little while to start following enough people that my home page now populates with posts and I don't have to search so much.
I followed a bunch of political/journalist types when I first joined, but not many of them are active there. (With the exception of Teri Kanefield https://mas.to/@Teri_Kanefield@law-and-politics.online )
So my time at Mastodon is more about following artists (I'm a watercolor beginner) instead of political stuff... I wonder if that will change as Twitter continues it's slow fizzle.
(and to actually address the OP, I won't be setting up my own server anytime soon. 
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