🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@LWFlouisa Really depends what you want to do with it. Hosting my instance is expensive but because of a few specific reasons 1) it is open to the public and we have over 100,000 posts cumulatively. 2) we have a follow bot with over 8K follows 3) I have customized source code running on my server (for example the increased word count)

This means i need a dedicated host instance with a lot of hard drive space. 1 & 2 require hard drive space #3 means i need a dedicated instance.

So for a basic instance its only $5 a month. That will have a 500 character limit and you cant follow more than a few hundred people probably. If you want an instance like mine your talking $30 a month.

@LWFlouisa While I would strongly disagree with you on your view of anarcho-communist I would never discriminate against you for it. As long as you engage in respectful discourse i would even encourage you to share your views in the conversations i have.

@LWFlouisa Well I started my instance because most instances are either a alt-right haven or an alt-left haven. Meaning extremely immature and childish. So I started my own. Feel free to come here if you wish to avoid both groups, none of that here.

@LWFlouisa I run a mastodon instance. My instance has a 65,535 character count.

It is so easy to change the character count that it is really a non-point IMO. Though it should be made easier (through a configuration option).

@fenwick67@octodon.social @arteteco I have hide replies and hide boosts checked but it still seems to show both for me :(

@zinat ok ill do that today.

@zinat sort of, i think you mistunderstood though. Basically in my working version i modified the start shell script ad uncommented the populate call. In the version im trying to prepare for you im trying to make it so that call happens from docker so you dont need to modify your own code. It is just giving me trouble probably because i have a bug in my bash script is all.

@zinat Well an easy fix would be if the start script inluded the python call that was commented out, etc. thats the working version i have locally.

@zinat Jsut to let you know ill have the docker-compose file to you shortly. There was a little bug that i had some issue with and didnt have time to follow up. Going to fix that then commit.

@thegibson Ok, I'll be starting my own podcast there. So I'd like it to become a community for such things.

@sampo I thought that said "heart" not "heat"... both work :)

@thegibson I have no issue with people monetizing

@thegibson I'm in the process of brining up a funkwhale instance specifically to host podcasts. Would you be interested in an account there?

@dtluna @wowaname @Argus@mastodon.technology I suppose thats one way to debate, assuming you go on the assumption that you are infallible and couldn't possibly wrong. Personally I don't think you meet that characteristic.

@dtluna @Argus@mastodon.technology @wowaname Can't say I agree, but I wish they werent needed.

@dtluna @wowaname @Argus@mastodon.technology Sometimes it is, sometimes it isnt. I dont think we can look at antitrust laws collectively, we have to evaluate them individually.

@wowaname @Argus@mastodon.technology I agree. I feel entirely content should be 100% under the users control.

@wowaname @Argus@mastodon.technology I tend to agree. In short, right now the free market isnt solving it (but your right it should be able to). As such i support net neutrality until such time that we can insure the free market works in that regard.