Hi, i’m curious if any of you have any experiences setting up and using a Mastodon instance for your family/social circle only?
I’m thinking it could provide an experience like the early Facebook, where you saw posts from people you actually cared about. And not just a bunch of ads disguised as content.
If you have experience with it, how did you convince your family to move over to the server? Does it get used and are there any unforeseen complications you hadn’t expected?
Movim https://movim.eu/ could serve a dual purpose for you if you don’t yet have chat which often make sense for certain non-tech-savvy circles. It can be an all-in-one application for chat + posts (short form, long, with media, & now whatever those short videos are called)—& this better mimics how many interact with Facebook. It isn’t ActivityPub, but it is FOSS / decentralized (can join or disable connection to other pods/servers). There aren’t chat applications integrated together with ActivityPub—& Mastodon doesn’t provide E2EE.
That looks very cool! I will look into it. Thanks!
It also functions as a PWA (progressive web app) for those that want those features. The underlying chat protocol has many native clients as well for everyone to have a low-power, low-data-consumption option for encrypted chat, both direct messages & chat rooms.