I would totally eat it!
I’ve read about as much as you and it does seem to follow it fairly well. The TV show actually got me into reading the books, which have been fun to read.
Since AP servers both accept incoming connections and make outgoing connections, both sides need valid certificates to do HTTPS.
Good luck getting the server connecting to you to trust it!
That's pretty much been my experience, as well.
I do wish you could federate/sync specific communities to your instance to make searching/subscribing easier.
You mean something that populates your server with a history of posts and comments to communities before your subscribe to them?
You're talking about Lemmy, right?
I provisioned an Ubuntu 22.02 server at Linode. I chose their 2 GB Shared CPU instance type. Once I configured the server to my liking, I ran through the Lemmy-Ansible instructions. (They have other methods, so check the documentation.)
Essentially, you install Ansible on your workstation. I'm on macOS and installed it via Homebrew. You then download their git repository, create the necessary configuration files, and then have Ansible configure the server. It was fairly simple.
I've joined the Patreon, but I won't be opening an account on the instance since I'll be following your communities from my own. Thanks so much!
What might make you want to ditch your self-hosted Mastodon instance?
With Lemmy, I didn't feel a need to pick any specific instance because I can follow communities from anywhere, and it seems to work pretty well.
One downside I've encountered with my own Lemmy instance is that post and comment history in the communities I follow begins when I started following them on my new instance. New posts and comments are federated my way, going forward, but I don't have the ability to go back and view as much history as one would on lemmy.world or lemmy.ml, for example.
leopardboy
joined 1 year ago
Yes, this!