Grow Your Own Services 🌱

If you're interested in self-hosting Manyfold, a Fediverse 3D print file sharing platform, there are official instructions for manual installation at:

➡️ https://manyfold.app/get-started/installation

(As far as I can tell it's not on Yunohost or managed hosting yet, so you will need to be a techy person to do this installation.)

#3DPrinting #SelfHosting #Fediverse

There is now a free open self-hostable Fediverse trail recorder called Wanderer. You can upload GPS data directly and it also lets you import your data from Strava and Komoot.

Wanderer is federated through ActivityPub so Wanderer servers can connect to other Wanderer servers and Mastodon etc servers too. More info at the official website:

➡️ https://wanderer.to

Source code is at:

➡️ https://github.com/Flomp/wanderer

You can follow the lead developer at:

➡️ @flomp

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Strava

If you're running a public Mastodon server but you have additional features not available on vanilla Mastodon, you might want to tell people about them in your server description. (For example some have higher character limits, more poll options, markdown text formatting etc.)

Whatever your server's extras are, they can be a really good "hook" for people who are trying to find a new home on the Fediverse, and it encourages them to read more about your server.

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

If you have a #YouTube account, Google can delete it or block you from accessing it at any time, without giving any reason (for example https://makertube.net/w/gRZZWZmnD9iU8ahnMGMR4v).

To make sure your videos stay online, you might want to set up your own #PeerTube server:

- Non-techy people can use managed PeerTube hosting like @fedihost or @Cloud68

- Moderately techy people can use @yunohost to install PeerTube themselves

- Very techy people can use manual installation instructions at https://docs.joinpeertube.org

@rob

The relays that cause bandwidth problems are the general ones.

You don't need to use general relays, you can use hashtag-specific relays that only send posts on certain topics. These are a lot more suited to smaller servers. More info in the article: https://fedi.tips/using-relays-to-quickly-expand-a-servers-view-of-the-fediverse/

Are you running a small Mastodon server? Do you want to increase how much of the Fediverse is visible to your server?

Here is a guide to how you can build up connections with the rest of the Fediverse more quickly:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/using-relays-to-quickly-expand-a-servers-view-of-the-fediverse

TL:DR - Follow accounts and groups relevant to your server, subscribe to relevant topic-specific relays, install Hypebot, install FediFetcher.

You don't have to do all of these, but each one helps.

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin

In case you missed it, Microsoft just cancelled the email account of the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor because Trump doesn't like them:

➡️ https://floss.social/@danslerush/114516184152670358

It's really risky to depend on centralised tech firms based in countries with authoritarian regimes. I know people wish it wasn't true, but this is the reality we live in.

You can mitigate this risk by running your own online services. You don't need to be rich or techy to do it nowadays:

➡️ https://growyourown.services

Mastodon admins,

If you want to remind your members to add image descriptions, there is a piece of custom CSS code you can use which puts a red border around posts without alt texts. Instructions on how to do this here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-can-mastodon-server-administrators-automatically-remind-their-users-to-add-text-descriptions

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #Accessibility