Hi people of Qoto! Nice to meet you, my name is Evan.
I LOVE the innovations on this Mastodon instance. It is truly inspiring, especially the group service you developed on groups.qoto.org!
I was wondering, I noticed that the domain public.group is around $2000 USD on Namecheap first year only, (a mere 13$/year after that !! !!) .
I personally would be willing to contribute 200 $ to the devs of Qoto to purchase that domain name and host a federated group service on it.
Having @mygroup@public.group as an available asset would be a huge service to the Fediverse! A dream come true!
Would anybody else be willing to contribute funds towards a fundraiser to make this happen?
Please let me know and I can set up a liberapay, get in contact with the owners to make this a reality!
High hopes for the future,
Evan
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@evanb great to have you here. If you get enough people interested I'd be happy to host our group server there, or a clone of it.
Curious though, is the domain name that important? Wouldnt 2K be better spent paying developers to add new features?
@freemo Hi, and thank you! Great question, I really do think so! Accessibility is really important, and I feel often overlooked in the tech community.
Groups is one of the key obstacles in popularizing the fediverse as a fb alternative.
It is easier to tell a newcomer "just tag @public.group," than "@groups.qoto.org " --although it is a small detail, I think attention to it has high payoff.
Plus the scale, since this improved UX would affect every single mastodon instance, makes this seem like a valuable use of resources.
What do you think? And thanks again for your kind regards :)
@evanb If there is interest in it im willing to support it. It certainly gives the impression of a more universal service rather than one specific to QOTO. Perhaps we can find a good domain name that is actually free?
fediverse.group is a couple orders of magnitude cheaper.
@evanb If you want to run the server yourself feel free to buy it and i will be happy to help you setup the server if you need help.
If you want me to run a group server at that address I can buy it and set something up. You can admin it of course and run it.
I just got the domain! I'd be happy to run the server myself, thank you! I have a server of federated services I am starting, but since I am new to this I am still getting set up (trying to get Mobilizon and Pleroma working).
I would be very glad to host the groups service too! I can let you know when my server is set up, or if you want, I can also point the DNS to one of your servers too!
I'm not a big fan of a third party owning the domain name to a service hosted with QOTO donations (on our servers). It would give you the ability to shutdown or take over a server. Of course if you host it yourself I have no objects and am happy to help you get setup or contribute in anyway I can.
Perfectly understandable! And that is very kind of you to offer help. I will get started on this soon and message you if I have any questions!
After installation I'll try to work on a nice frontend for the landing page too :) Really excited about this, thanks so much once again!
Thank you so much! Really grateful for the innovations you've done with qoto.org and really looking forward to collaborate! I have a domain public.garden that I am looking to make into an accessible fediverse node :)
If you need help with public.garden let me know. The infrastructure code I mentioned should be pretty universally useful for any sort of server, but double so for mastodon instances which i already containerized
Thank you so much! Do you think the QOTO infrastructure would work on Pleroma, or would it be largely simpler as a Mastodon instance? I'm very interested in soapbox.pub and it's potential for theme-ability.
For qoto.org, have you ever considered adding a Mobilizon service as a SSO? events.qoto.org or something?
Would work just fine for pleorma or any other web service. We have quite a few different servers running on the same infrastructure.
@freemo @evanb @mcduquesne just jumping around hashtags since I’m new. You can broadcast to an entire server ?
@freemo @evanb @mcduquesne ah I’m new and don’t know how everything works. The original poster made it sound like you could send a message to everyone belonging to a particular community / server
Not so directly no. If you are on a particular server, and if that server has the feature (most dont) you can do that as a local-only post where basically only users from the local server can see it. But otherwise it looks like a regular post in the timeline, not a direct message or anything.
@evanb
Awesome. Always glad to see the fediverse grow. More than happy to help so just hit me up. I have a lot of infrastructure based code that might be useful to you, the QOTO infrastructure is fairly mature and well designed (elastic, scalable, built on open source tech, fully containerized, etc)
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