An off-grid social network

Re:An off-grid social network by hmhrex on Thursday April 06, 2017 @01:25PM (#14052597)

This is what I want. I've been wanting to build something like this for a long time. Something where I own my data. I can back it up and if my laptop gets stolen, I just import my data on a new machine and we're good to go.

The challenges that I see: - Making it easy for any user to get up and running. - De-authenticating old devices. - Making it available from any mobile device.

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Re:An off-grid social network by rocky1138 on Thursday April 06, 2017 @01:55PM (#14052876)

I bought a VPS from CloudAtCost for a one-time fee of $35. Set it up with nginx and GNU Social and pretty much haven't looked back since. My instance is https://kwat.chat.

Ideally, the end solution would be dead simple. Download the Windows app, run it, put your credit card in if you need a URL registered, and it does everything, including daily backups to a folder on your disk.

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