Social networks are getting stingy with their data, closing their doors to devs

Re:Social networks are getting stingy with their data, closi... by huimang on Sunday February 11, 2024 @12:14PM (#39336471)

You're incentivized to either choose a stable, robust instance, or self-host. A lot of instances are pet projects that people kill off once they get bored of mastodon and don't want to pay for the upkeep anymore.

Self-hosting is the only way to really guarantee that it'll still be up years later. But you might get randomly banned from certain instances that blanket-ban single-user instances.

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Re:Social networks are getting stingy with their data, closi... by michaelt on Sunday February 11, 2024 @12:31PM (#39336652)

I've got to say, that doesn't sound like a very good solution.

How are people who aren't already part of the community supposed to know what a stable, robust instance is?

And self-hosting is all very well, but if I wanted to join a community comprised exclusively of greybeard unix sysadmins, I'd use IRC :)

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Re:Social networks are getting stingy with their data, closi... by praisewhitey on Sunday February 11, 2024 @08:14PM (#39340438)

Isn't self-hosting more likely to end up being one of those pet projects that gets killed off?

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Re:Social networks are getting stingy with their data, closi... by ambichook on Sunday February 11, 2024 @10:12PM (#39340956)

but if it's a pet project that gets killed off it's because you yourself got bored of it and killed it, it's entirely within your control, not at the whims of someone else

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