Discover the fediverse in less than 15 minutes
summary
Explains how the fediverse runs on ActivityPub and discovery via DNS and WebFinger, with roughly 13,000 nodes today; compares hosted accounts, paying ~€10/month for a custom domain, and full self‑hosting. Lists software tradeoffs: Mastodon needs more resources and background workers while GoToSocial is a single Go binary using SQLite and environment variables. Covers moderation choices, instance blacklisting, posting automation options (Mastodon Scheduler, Feed to AP) and the remaining gap of reliable notification/management tooling.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 0:57What is Mastodon ?
- 1:10Free software
- 2:06The Federation
- 3:49Multiple softwares
- 7:25Official presence of a project
- 7:50Using a existing server
- 9:02Using your own domain
- 9:52Standard Rails app
- 10:21Static golang binary
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