There is something which scares me on mastodon. I see more and more people installing instances while they don't have a clue about what they're doing.
Then their instance is going to be listed on the website and people will be randomly redirected toward them when someone wants to use mastodon.
But then what happen?
Hosting someone's services is not fun or anything. It's a liability and I hope you have that in mind.
Also, pick carefully your instance.
@Vigdis @chaotic_signals Indeed - sysadmin is serious work. If instances are fairly small, then the potential for harm is fairly limited, but there's some big ones out there that may need a bit of...counseling about how to effectively go about sysadmin and community admin work.
@munin @Vigdis @chaotic_signals Yep. And with system administration, the hardest part is, as in most relationships, knowing when and how to stop if it's not bringing you any positive feelings.
The tooling/software needs to make user migration across instances possible before too many people hit that point.
@r4v5 @chaotic_signals @munin agreed