**Will Queer 4 Lisp** @Salomao@icosahedron.website · Apr 12, 2017, 00:01

**Will Queer 4 Lisp** @Salomao@icosahedron.website · Apr 12, 2017, 00:01

Will Queer 4 Lisp @Salomao@icosahedron.website

Apr 12, 2017, 00:01

Will Queer 4 Lisp @Salomao@icosahedron.website

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Masto is seriously a game changer for me. I work in social media advertising (yeah, I know, I chose the company for the people, not the product), so I see first hand how gung ho these social media companies are about their product.

Things like federation and separate instances are huge features for protecting people social media giants simply won't see revenue from.

The main issue I see now, is accessibility of instancing...

**Will Queer 4 Lisp** @Salomao@icosahedron.website · Apr 12, 2017, 00:02

**Will Queer 4 Lisp** @Salomao@icosahedron.website · Apr 12, 2017, 00:02

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It'd be nice to be able to pay someone to get things up and running. Ideally this service would exist in such a way that people are in charge of their own data, and are free to run the instance on their own should they decide they can handle hosting duties on their own.

**Sapadian :desktop:** @sapadian · 2017-04-12T00:05:40Z

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@Salomao When you mean things you mean a Mastodon instance, or something else?

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**Will Queer 4 Lisp** @Salomao@icosahedron.website · Apr 12, 2017, 00:06

**Will Queer 4 Lisp** @Salomao@icosahedron.website · Apr 12, 2017, 00:06

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@sapadian A masto instance, yeah. My main worry is that a high tech barrier for setting up an instance would exclude some people who might otherwise really benefit from having their own instances, you know?

**Sapadian :desktop:** @sapadian · Apr 12, 2017, 00:14

**Sapadian :desktop:** @sapadian · Apr 12, 2017, 00:14

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@Salomao I agree, I had mine setup through Docker, I just spun a VM up on Digital Ocean, but I tapped out. One I like the community I am in here, two I didn't have such a broad reaching topic to justify a whole instance. Three, I am working on other stuff now, and didn't want to half ass the administration and let my users down. I think it would be a great idea for someone to start this, charge a small monthly fee and toss some money back into Masto.