mastodon-documentation VS PixelFed

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

Currently contributing to Pixelfed project to gain experience: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pulls?q=is%3Aclosed+is%...

There's https://pixelfed.org/

I do post many pictures, but I am tempted to self-host Pixelfed as well as an Instagram alternative.

Is something like Pixelfed an option?

https://pixelfed.org

I'm not affiliated with the project, neither I consider it a panacea, but anyone who might be interested, here it is: https://pixelfed.org/ It's best to use the web browser with it, although there's an Android app for it (PixelDroid), and there is an official app for iOS and Android currently in beta.

You can suggest features on the project github https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues

Contrary to initial expectations, Threads falls short in terms of embracing decentralization. Notably, the platform does not support the widely adopted ActivityPub protocol, which is essential for interoperability with other decentralized networks in the Fediverse. This absence prevents seamless interaction between Threads and existing platforms that adhere to decentralized principles, such as Mastodon and Pixelfed.

Fediverse, or 'federated universe' is the name given to the social media platforms that utilize this concept of federation and decentralization. While Lemmy and Mastodon are the most popular right now, there are many similar platforms. There is Peertube for example, which is a Youtube alternative, or Pixelfed, which is an instagram alternative. You can view a list of all such platforms on this site. Here's also a visual representation that might help.

Pixelfed(like instagram) https://pixelfed.org/