Read https://blog.soykaf.com/post/how-federation-works/ and it appears to me there's a lot of initial work to do before I invite friends over. 😕
Also... why don't I see anything when I visit a profile on any other instance? Can #Pleroma not request the full profile? Why *just* what we *need*?
@celia I wish you good luck with this !
@farhan Would Pleroma let me have an "instance-only" posting mode?
The fork of Mastodon maintained by the author of runyourown.social allows this - https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown
@celia Wow, I hadn't heard about spacebear. Pretty good pricing, too. I *kind* of want to have my own mastodon instance, but I like it here too much.
@nathand Oh I love it here too! Not leaving at all. :)
@celia Considering the PeerTube, option. Though I'm not much of a videographer, either 😅
@celia
Maybe you already know it, but there's @mastohost too.
@emanuel @mastohost Yeah, but sadly they don't support Hometown (which is a lightweight fork of Mastodon)
@celia
Till this day I didn't know about Hometown 🤦🏼 Always learning 😀
@Jakobiner @celia @robby @stux I love that a RPi4 is “a bit overpowered” for Pleroma.
@robby Going to try it again. 🤷♀️
Mastodon is far more stable as an overall product imo so I want to stick with it for now. Hometown, although, doesn't have an exit path, sadly.
@celia Couple of minutes, usually. Depends if their server is up.
But following affects your Home timeline, not really your Federated one (unless it's the first follow between the two instances – assuming Pleroma works like Mastodon, anyway).
@wizzwizz4 Yeah it would be the first follow between these two servers. I think it does work similarly.
@celia Welcome! :)
@celia what exactly is missing?
@Jakobiner @rusi @mariusor That's a shame... this is such a primitive feature but I understand it might be too tricky to get right.
More and more I think I'm going to try setting up Hometown again! 😕
@Jakobiner @rusi @celia I feel like that is overreaching and over engineering something that should have been just a synchronous API call to the viewed actor's outbox.
#Spacebear provides #Hometown hosting! This is pretty cool! A bit expensive but probably worth it for the peace of mind.
Not sure how many approx. users small and medium plans can accommodate. Dropped them an email. 📧