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Selfhosted twitter alternative, not mastodon if possible (lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello, I have seted up my lemmy server couple months back and am loving it. One problem I have with it is that I can't follow individual users so I have been thinking about selfhosting another fediverse service that will satiate my need to follow specific users.

Most popular platform on the world generally for that is twitter so I wan't to see if there is any good twitter alternative. I know of mastodon but have heard that it can be hard to selfhost and uses a lot of storage ( that wouldn't be that much of a problem with s3 storage provider, like what I do with lemmy already ).

So I would like to know if there is any simpler "twitter" alternatives for following single user's on the fediverse, preferably with s3 storage support.

If mastodon is the best in that regard I most likelly will just selfhost it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

id suggest mbin, as it does both (forums:lemmy, microblog:mastodon). im happy with it. check it out, https://moist.catsweat.com

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Tnx for recommendation, if I knew of it before I seted up my lemmy server I would hop on it right away. But since I already have lemmy for "communities" I would like for something that's more microbloging specific.

I could migrate to it but it would get annoying for a couple friends that already use my lemmy instance.

EDIT: I might self hostcit to try it and see how wellcit work's tho.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

My experience using the *bins has been that they provide a superior community UX, but the microblogging end of things feels very rough and under-invested in. It's a value-add that doesn't integrate well, or add real value.

There's a ton of potential there for cross-posting, but it's totally unrealized.