mastodon-documentation VS kbin

Something like €50/month would cover a decent server, that covers at least 200 users. So that’s about €3/year per user. Most likely over 1000 if I look here.. Which would be less than €0,6/year/user. That’s definitely doable on donations, I think.

The second question I have is about having my username just on my root domain, while the service is on a subdomain. Both gts and mastodon seem to support it, and lemmy and pixelfed seems to be working towards supporting it.

Ah. When I read https://github.com/felx/mastodon-documentation/blob/master/Running-Mastodon/Serving_a_different_domain.md I thought it meant to not change, local domain, which was the part that didn't add up to me, but rereading now, seems it's just saying yes you can change localdomain from social.example.com to example.com but to only do so if you also add webdomain as social.example.com. Think that clears everything up. You clearly rock =)

I would like to run my own mastodon instance and made use of the docker images. I followed this how-to: https://peterbabic.dev/blog/running-mastodon-with-docker-compose/ and https://github.com/felx/mastodon-documentation/blob/master/Running-Mastodon/Docker-Guide.md

One will notice the regrettable duplication in that list, and it's (AFAIK) a massive unsolved problem in the Fediverse. My mental model is that Lemmy is exactly like signing up to mailing lists but where one can also upvote and downvote posts (err, some instances don't allow downvotes, so there's that). That means that folks who want the most coverage for their submission will post it to every one of the duplicated mailing lists, which results in their own message-id along with their own threaded replies and upvote/downvote scores. Some folks have proposed using the link-url and subject for deduplicating them, but I believe it's just a proposal from the client side and the servers will do no such thing (although running your own instance hypothetically would allow for such customization)

There's also https://kbin.pub which is its own ActivityPub implementation and behaves a little different from Lemmy, I'm sure with good and bad parts. IIRC there's some federation drama between Kbin and some Lemmy instances, and (AFAIK) Kbin does not have any mobile apps whereas there are currently several which speak the Lemmy API. I'd credit it with "first mover effect" more than one being objectively better than the other

I do hope Lemmy catches on and siphons users off of Reddit because the rug-pull from Reddit was a trust-breaking middle finger, IMHO. I wished the same thing for Mastodon, too, but I think the inertia is just too strong with X

The Fediverse - which kbin is a part of - is a network of interconnected servers used for publishing content, much like Reddit. The benefit is that the Fediverse is decentralised and not controlled by any company or authority, cannot be monetised in the same sense as Reddit, and the code is free. Different servers - also called instances - are independent but communicate with each other.

There is pretty big one on kbin and iirc there is one on lemmy as well

There is pretty big one at kbin, specifically on the kbin.social instance

Lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy has definite technical advantages vs https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin -- use of PHP is a bit of a red flag. I'm going to try a small ARM64 instance so explicitly supporting that is nice.

Lemmy (https://join-lemmy.org) and Kbin (https://kbin.pub) - those are like reddit, but federated (means there are multiple websites and are connected to each other so you can access "subreddits" of each of them, it's similar idea how e-mail works, you don't need to be on gmail to send e-mail to friend on gmail). The Kbin is distinct from lemmy, but it looks like you can access lemmy communities from kbin and vice versa. Also this might be useful https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances

Sinon kbin (qu'il faut que je test).

You can use kbin instead, if the political views of Lemmy's developers makes you feel uneasy.