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Given what's goin' on Fosstodon-wise, there is presumably a few more people than usual trying to figure out what their next Fedi home should be. If you already have a bit of a following, my suggestion is not to join an instance, but BE an instance (i.e. set up a personal instance). Here's some related stuff I've written and resources!

- Owning my own social: shellsharks.com/own-my-social
- #GoToSocial on K&T Host: shellsharks.com/notes/2025/01/…
- Hosting providers list: shellsharks.com/notes/2023/08/…

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in reply to shellsharks

Having an established following/connection web is crucial for this imo. Before you reach a critical mass of connections, it’s much easier to make new connections via the local timeline. Good callout
in reply to Phillip

Yep! Interestingly, I feel like I've been seeing an uptick over the last year or so in single-user fedi instances. Maybe it's to avoid some "drama", maybe it's for the other inherent benefits. Either way, it's easy enough to do with managed hosting (if you have some cash to spare for such things that is).
in reply to shellsharks

agreed! I have my own instance, but also I moved my following to this alias as it’s on micro.blog and uses my main domain (@samuel@samuellison.com vs @samuel). Wish there were easier solutions already available on GitHub that offered a Fediverse back-end to a self-hosted front end blog or CMS or even static site generator like HUGO. Something that’s not Wordpress and allows for follower timelines, etc.
in reply to Samuel Lison

@samuel@samuellison.com @samuel@social.familylison.com I've been interested at various points in fedifying my site, but I always decide not to in the end. I'll probably consider it again in the future haha. If I was to do it though, I'd look into this - maho.dev/2025/03/a-guide-to-im… from @mapache
in reply to shellsharks

@samuel@samuellison.com @samuel@social.familylison.com @mapache What Ghost is doing to simplify this process is great. Limited only to Ghost but this is yet another way folks can just be their own node in the Fediverse.
in reply to lqdev

could you tell me more on how Ghost works? Does it allow a blog style front end with some fediverse back-end like timelines, ability to follow people and have comments within the blog articles etc built-in?
in reply to Samuel Lison

@samuel I personally don't use Ghost so couldn't tell you much more beyond what's on their website and repo.

github.com/TryGhost/ActivityPu…

What you described is my general understanding.

in reply to lqdev

yeah I had a look into it, and looks like that are working on as well as taking input from the community for, adding an ActivityPub and Fediverse backend to their product. Hopefully it will be part of their opensource version and not just their hosted version 😁

I saw this page: activitypub.ghost.org which is for their paid version I think buit their documentation leads to this ghost.org/tutorials… and a form for all of us that are interested to fill out: tally.so/r/m67X4P

in reply to shellsharks