Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now
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Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now
It's all private and closed so only we 3 use it to communicate and share stories with each other!
You can just disable federation and set everything private so it becomes a little intranet for friends!
#Mastodon is really amazing
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Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now
It's all private and closed so only we 3 use it to communicate and share stories with each other!
You can just disable federation and set everything private so it becomes a little intranet for friends!
#Mastodon is really amazing
@stux that’s so cool! How do you handle getting external traffic into your network?
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Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now
It's all private and closed so only we 3 use it to communicate and share stories with each other!
You can just disable federation and set everything private so it becomes a little intranet for friends!
#Mastodon is really amazing
Also text limit is 50K or something and upload size 1 or 2GB for large videos etc!
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@stux that’s so cool! How do you handle getting external traffic into your network?
@tosbourn Disallow everything
Federation is set to limited so only allowed (reversed blocklist)
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Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now
It's all private and closed so only we 3 use it to communicate and share stories with each other!
You can just disable federation and set everything private so it becomes a little intranet for friends!
#Mastodon is really amazing
Anyone interested in doing this themselves, there's more info at https://fedi.tips/creating-an-isolated-server
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Anyone interested in doing this themselves, there's more info at https://fedi.tips/creating-an-isolated-server
@FediThing Thank youuu!
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@tosbourn Disallow everything
Federation is set to limited so only allowed (reversed blocklist)
@stux ha! Sorry I mean how do they access the instance if it’s running on your laptop?
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@stux ha! Sorry I mean how do they access the instance if it’s running on your laptop?
@tosbourn Oh sorry
Port forward, just reconfig it since we have a new home
it's on a hard to find place but with a domain
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@tosbourn Oh sorry
Port forward, just reconfig it since we have a new home
it's on a hard to find place but with a domain
@tosbourn Its running on an old working laptop that they /didn't/ want back so i cleaned it all and put linux on it ofc
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