Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web
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I think that sounds like a really good idea, if you want to get corporate- and government hosted instances on board. What keeps most of them away from free software is that they can't write a contract with anyone with clear boundaries and guarantees. If Mastodon offers these types of contracts, it would help the adoption rate.
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I honestly would've preferred a referral program where you could get a pre-configured vps at your chosen vps provider (where the end user can choose from vps providers such as Hetzner, Glesys and so on), and that the referrer (mastodon, friendica, piefed, lemmy or mbin) gets a small cut out of every monthly payment.
Though I'm not sure how to make that an intriguing deal for the vps providers.Centralizing the decentralized web at one provider sounds counter productive.
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I hope they don't go open core.
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I remember when I wanted Mozilla to do that, since they had the organizational might, the money, and it fit perfectly with their mission when they created mozilla.social. On the one hand, it seems slightly less ideal to have the same organization that develops mastodon also providing hosting for it. On the other hand, they probably have a better chance of doing it well.
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I wish government organisations would host their own Mastodon servers. Get off Twitter.
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I hope they don't go open core.
The code is AGPL. They can't do open core.
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I think that sounds like a really good idea, if you want to get corporate- and government hosted instances on board. What keeps most of them away from free software is that they can't write a contract with anyone with clear boundaries and guarantees. If Mastodon offers these types of contracts, it would help the adoption rate.
What keeps most of them away from free software is that they can’t write a contract with anyone with clear boundaries and guarantees.
They can. There are plenty of companies offering Mastodon hosting.
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I wish government organisations would host their own Mastodon servers. Get off Twitter.
In some countries, corporations and government are basically the same entity. Free countries distinguish between them in a meaningful sense.
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The code is AGPL. They can't do open core.
TIL GNU Affero General Public License it a flavor that closes loopholes that were used to extend open software without actually open sourcing your contributions.
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In some countries, corporations and government are basically the same entity. Free countries distinguish between them in a meaningful sense.
Even then, would rather my government contract out Mastodon hosting to a company based here in the UK than to use the American Hosted and moderated Elon tool.
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It's a good approach, it's exactly how NodeBB operates as well.
We have a FOSS software and we sell managed services for those who don't have the technical know-how.
Win-win.
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salut et adelphité #camarades et #sallesconnes de la #fediverse et du #mastodon
Orage à minuit, comme si ça ne suffisait pas je me suis mis à penser. Insomnie jusqu'à 2 heures.
Ce matin plus de mobile et en plus des restes de neige et un brouillard pépère.
Comme par hasard, on doit descendre dans la plaine pour prise de sang (moi) et dermato (Cat). On ne peut remettre ni l'une ni l'autre.
On va s'amuser.
À part ça pas de soucis, c'est toujours l'enfer partout.
Mais
#lalottacontinua
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Idea pazzerella: Gancio Varese?
Alüra. Maledetto sia il giorno in cui sono venuto a conoscenza di Gancio.
Mi piacerebbe vedere un’istanza per Varese ma ho dei forti dubbi su:
A) Chi la gestirebbe. Io personalmente non vorrei. Già gestire un’istanza é un’impresa.
B) E se la creo e poi nessuno la usa?
C) E se non viene utilizzata per scopi di attivismo ma solo per eventi culturali? (mostre, spettacoli etc). Allora perde di significato?
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@max @fediverso @_elena Sempre su serverplan... Dagli pure il mio talk del WordCamp Pisa sul fediverso e digli che è un talk di una loro cliente quella di plusbrothers.net ... Così almeno si accorgono che i loro clienti ne sanno più di loro, LOL!
Il talk sta su WordPress.tv
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@max @fediverso @_elena Serverplan! Li conosco benissimo, sono loro cliente col sito plusbrothers.net (il sito in produzione, il cantiere sta su hostinger). E confermo che il supporto tecnico, quando li ho contattati perché activitypub non pubblicava e rallentava WordPress, non sapevano cosa dirmi. Senonché gli ho chiesto: mettete le mani sui log, controllate se c'è qualcosa di bloccato... Bloccavano il dns o come si chiama, di poliverso. Una roba chiamata ermes.poliverso.org o affini, da cui non partiva niente. Adesso me l'hanno risolto e... Mi dispiace anche, l'idea di andarmene. Per un altro anno infatti credo che tengo il servizio, fin che non passo tutto di qua. Ma mi piacerebbe lasciargli anche qualcosa di scritto, sul fediverso!
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Hi @liaizon @pfefferle,
#lol, the quality is IN the picture.
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@liaizon thanks 😍
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@sturmsucht @_elena no hurry! Thank you both!
