Do you host any Fediverse instances for family (Mastodon, etc)? Curious if you get your family to use it and what headaches when linking to other instances.
Seems like a nice way to combine group texts, picture sharing, etc
I run my own Mastodon instance. My wife uses it too. It is open to my family, but none have moved this way yet - more of a “not using mastodon” than “not your mastodon”. Easy to link to other instances. I use a docker based instance of mastodon with the db and nginx running on an Azure VM running Ubuntu. Easy to patch, and update. I spent days getting it running right (learning, tearing down, rinse, repeat) but now it is a few minutes a month maintaining. Let me know if you have any questions.
Ya…getting them to use something new is the hard part.
I’m seriously considering this. I created lemmydeals.com and getting the site up and running only took me an hour.
I’m thinking more about a single user instance of mastodon too because it looks like lemmy to mastodon interaction is just as clunky as lemmy to lemmy.
It was hard enough getting everyone on the same text messaging service. I think migrating to a federated service will break the family 🤣
I’m still considering it to replace my small discord server. But that’s a group of tech-y friends who like to try out new things.
