Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now
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Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now
It's all private and closed so only we 3 use it to communicate and share stories with each other!
You can just disable federation and set everything private so it becomes a little intranet for friends!
#Mastodon is really amazing
Also text limit is 50K or something and upload size 1 or 2GB for large videos etc!
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@stux that’s so cool! How do you handle getting external traffic into your network?
@tosbourn Disallow everything
Federation is set to limited so only allowed (reversed blocklist)
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@FediThing Thank youuu!
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@tosbourn Disallow everything
Federation is set to limited so only allowed (reversed blocklist)
@stux ha! Sorry I mean how do they access the instance if it’s running on your laptop?
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@stux ha! Sorry I mean how do they access the instance if it’s running on your laptop?
@tosbourn Oh sorry
Port forward, just reconfig it since we have a new home
it's on a hard to find place but with a domain
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@tosbourn Oh sorry
Port forward, just reconfig it since we have a new home
it's on a hard to find place but with a domain
@tosbourn Its running on an old working laptop that they /didn't/ want back so i cleaned it all and put linux on it ofc
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Also text limit is 50K or something and upload size 1 or 2GB for large videos etc!
@stux I really wish those settings were part of the admin panel. If I'm not mistaken, you have to set those things anew after each upate, right?
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Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now
It's all private and closed so only we 3 use it to communicate and share stories with each other!
You can just disable federation and set everything private so it becomes a little intranet for friends!
#Mastodon is really amazing
@stux how secure is this? Is it a good alternative to Signal?
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Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now
It's all private and closed so only we 3 use it to communicate and share stories with each other!
You can just disable federation and set everything private so it becomes a little intranet for friends!
#Mastodon is really amazing
@stux okay, I have Questions... (1) how much does that take in terms of resources? obviously the media takes what it takes, but basic disk/memory/CP?
(2) I take it you do like I do and treat your primary laptop like a desktop, i.e. it never goes to suspend/hibernate? (wouldn't be the first time a lappy got (ab)used like that; I had an old Compaq I once used for a mail server... it was quite the trooper... )it's a tempting idea; despite the Discord flap being not as huge a deal as it could be, I still have the impetus to get as many resources off capitalista platforms as possible...
ooh, the other question: Given reasonably-competent admin skills, how portable is the resulting dataset? If a laptop starts dying under us, how big of a pain in the ASCII is it to move the instance?
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@stux okay, I have Questions... (1) how much does that take in terms of resources? obviously the media takes what it takes, but basic disk/memory/CP?
(2) I take it you do like I do and treat your primary laptop like a desktop, i.e. it never goes to suspend/hibernate? (wouldn't be the first time a lappy got (ab)used like that; I had an old Compaq I once used for a mail server... it was quite the trooper... )it's a tempting idea; despite the Discord flap being not as huge a deal as it could be, I still have the impetus to get as many resources off capitalista platforms as possible...
ooh, the other question: Given reasonably-competent admin skills, how portable is the resulting dataset? If a laptop starts dying under us, how big of a pain in the ASCII is it to move the instance?
@stonebear2 1. Almost nothing since we 3 only post sometimes
2. its an old laptop from work that is super eco friendly, just with 24.04 server
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@stonebear2 1. Almost nothing since we 3 only post sometimes
2. its an old laptop from work that is super eco friendly, just with 24.04 server
@stonebear2 From the past year or so:
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Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now
It's all private and closed so only we 3 use it to communicate and share stories with each other!
You can just disable federation and set everything private so it becomes a little intranet for friends!
#Mastodon is really amazing
@stux Do you view all posts on the public timeline then? I guess boosts are superfluous? And everything (replies) is set to public. I like the # function or label for organising and finding things and guess you would end up with a great database. I wanted to do this for a work brainstorming group.
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@stux Do you view all posts on the public timeline then? I guess boosts are superfluous? And everything (replies) is set to public. I like the # function or label for organising and finding things and guess you would end up with a great database. I wanted to do this for a work brainstorming group.
@adingbatponder Yup! Since the timelines and accounts need logged in accounts to be viewed
We use Glitch-soc for this so we have extra options we neeed
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Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now
It's all private and closed so only we 3 use it to communicate and share stories with each other!
You can just disable federation and set everything private so it becomes a little intranet for friends!
#Mastodon is really amazing
Amazing until you close the lid on your laptop ...
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Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now
It's all private and closed so only we 3 use it to communicate and share stories with each other!
You can just disable federation and set everything private so it becomes a little intranet for friends!
#Mastodon is really amazing
@stux been thinking about that yeah
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@stux how secure is this? Is it a good alternative to Signal?
@James Miller Hahaha, no!
If you want a good alternative for Signal, check out Matrix. Seriously.
#^https://matrix.org
#^https://element.io
#^https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/matrix_element_secure_chat
@stux
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Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now
It's all private and closed so only we 3 use it to communicate and share stories with each other!
You can just disable federation and set everything private so it becomes a little intranet for friends!
#Mastodon is really amazing
@stux do you essentially have a VPN, or some other closed network, for access? I only ask because someone made a thread the other day about what's still public even on a non-federating mastodon server. If memory serves, the RSS feed is still there, for example.
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Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now
It's all private and closed so only we 3 use it to communicate and share stories with each other!
You can just disable federation and set everything private so it becomes a little intranet for friends!
#Mastodon is really amazing
I considered that, with Friendica not Mastodon (I do not like the format), The fact is that I can write far more compact code for such a use case then either Mastodon or Friendica. Projects like PHPBB make a good starting base for some. One of my books, PHP 8 Objects Patterns, and Practice (Volumes 1 & 2 Seventh Edition) has a mock up social media platform as a project that is even a leaner starting point. Yet, these options are only truly viable if you are a developer, so you I respect your choice.
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Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now
It's all private and closed so only we 3 use it to communicate and share stories with each other!
You can just disable federation and set everything private so it becomes a little intranet for friends!
#Mastodon is really amazing
@stux people used IRC for this purpose, you don't need memory hog for this
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Amazing until you close the lid on your laptop ...
Okay, so you are likely joking? As laptops can be set to do nothing when you close the lid. I like @stux have repurposed a lot of old laptops for this type of service. The great thing is that you can just install a server flavor of your favorite distro, set it up, close the lid and put it away and it just works in the background with minimum space waste
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