winter (she/it)

he can merge without looking

Personally I just skip the vps. I use my old HP laptop running fedora as my server (with cloudflared to expose my jellyfin and nextcloud because I live in a dorm and can’t port forward)

I use cloudflares tunneling service cloud flared which allowes me to have the service running on my home server and then cloudflare will automatically make the subdomains point towards the ip

I mean I don’t really have a choice because i don’t see a better way to put my home server on a url because I live in a dorm and can’t port forward or get a static ip

Mastodon is still federated and while there are going to be some instances run by bad actors the majority of them aren’t as bad. From what I understand at least mastodon.social is defederated with the bad instances anyway so we can’t interact with each other but I may be wrong I’m kind of new to this type of platform

Yeah. If you want an alternative I’d recommend mastodon because from what I’ve seen at least it’s not as brain dead