Twitter drama is through the roof. Although I'm confident the social media giant is not going anywhere anytime soon. I want to inquire if HN users have started migrating to Mastodon, and which servers they're using to do so.
Yes, I got on <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon.sdf.org/</a>. So far so good.<p>Edit: the reply is now deleted, but someone asked why I picked this server. I researched sdf.org and found they've been around a long time (20+ years) and the server rules seemed reasonable and not overly narrow or restrictive. Also, I actually got the registration email from this one, I tried some others and never got the promised email.
I got on social.linux.pizza. I wasn't a twitter user before though, I just thought this was a good time to try Mastadon, with the increased activity.
I would have hoped your average Hacker News user would run their own server, but I am often disappointed as seemingly many people don't even run their own email servers :(.<p>Mastadon seems particularly in need of a mechanism where you can get a hosted domain option, where you can easily just point a DNS record at some large instance and have it work as easily as email does after you point an MX at Google or Microsoft.
I will use MicroBlogPub on my own domain:<p><a href="https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub</a><p>It seems to have the leanest code base.<p>I am currently putting together a setup script for it.<p>It has an install documentation here:<p><a href="https://docs.microblog.pub/installing.html#python-developer-edition" rel="nofollow">https://docs.microblog.pub/installing.html#python-developer-...</a><p>I prefer a single script to this type of "first do this, then do that, then ..." tutorials. So I will write a script first, that let's you install MicroBlogPub on a fresh VPS without having to do anything.