TL;DR: given a set of moderation guidelines and volunteers to administer them, I'm willing to set up and host an ASF Fediverse/ActivityPub instance on fly.io.
- - - Technical background: While Mastodon is the most common and known implementation, there are plenty of others at various stages of development. Most with instructions that can be followed in an afternoon to set up an instance. Costs to run an instance vary, but I am seeing many reports that people are finding that they can host their own server on a free tier at various cloud service providers. I'm willing to volunteer for all of the above. These days I work for ly.io, and can host it for free. I'm not asking for anything in return - while I don't think it would be a good idea to make it a secret where the instance is hosted, no official recognition is required. I'll work with the infrastructure team so that an <something>.apache.org name will be the way to access it, and to ensure that I am not the only one with access to the VM. My default assumption is mastodon is the software to be used, but I can be convinced to install another service instead. Now let's examine the worst case scenario: this service is wildly successful (a good problem to have) and I get hit by a bus, and the ASF infra team doesn't want to touch this service. My best guess is that this would cost hundreds of US dollars per year and need volunteers to run it. the former could be routinely handled as a part of the ASF budget process (presumably either M&P or Comdev), and I'm optimistic that we can find plenty of volunteers here. --- Moderation background: I have no experience in this, but from postings I see people hosting mastodon images moderation can be time consuming. I am NOT signing up for this part, hence I'm making a call for volunteers. Apparently the internet is full of trolls, and not moderating your instance can get the entire instance banned by other instances. For now, I chose to participate at https://ruby.social/@samruby ; you can find more information about that instance here: https://ruby.social/about . We will need a code of conduct, a privacy policy, server rules etc. Note the list of moderated servers at the end, it is likely that we will end up with our own list, and this list will accrue over time based on posts that don't match our expectations, and thus will require moderators. --- I don't have a time schedule in mind, but if there are volunteers this could all come together in a matter of days, and certainly could be up and running this month, and probably early this month. - Sam Ruby --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
