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I had no idea of the size and variety of the Fediverse! It has me feeling a bit overwhelmed. I'm enjoying BookWyrm very much; it's the GoodReads/LibraryThing replacement I've been looking for for years.

I love the simplicity of Paper.wf for blogging. It's truly elegant; I just click the link and start typing. But as far as I can tell there's no way for others to find my blog or for me to find other blogs on the site. There's no browse or follow feature. Nor can anyone comment on my posts! Those seem to me to be HUGE omissions.

Have you used any Fediverse blogging options? What are they like? And what other Fediverse services would you recommend? Other than Mastodon, I've already tried that (it didn't excite me).

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[–] ozoned@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hetzner is $5 a month for a VPS that would run it. And what constitutes a "server"? A server is just another name for a computer.

[–] cityboundforest@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As someone who is already in debt because of a bad month with work, I'm not sure if I'm able to put out for a VPS. And as for the "server" thing, what I meant was I don't have a computer I can dedicate to near 100% uptime for running the instances I'd want to.

[–] ozoned@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got you. Totally understand. I used to be in the same situation. $5/month is sometimes better spent somewhere else. With Owncast you only really need it up when you're stream. You could do that from your PC you're playing on, but idk the kind of overhead that'd cause.

[–] cityboundforest@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm, it looks like people have "live" sites up that are at least reachable and they aren't streaming currently. Did I misread how Owncast works, or is there something else going on here with these sites?

As for running it during my stream (once I move out of my current apartment), I could have my laptop running Owncast possibly.

[–] ozoned@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So when you go to the page that's offline, that's because the Owncast software is up and running as a webserver. I've seen some folks that take the entire page down when they're not streaming. Really only difference is if there's a landing page there when you're not streaming or not.

[–] cityboundforest@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I wonder if it would be possible to set up something that 307's to a static page when I'm not live

[–] death916@lemmy.death916.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Oracle free tier has been working for me for a while. They are pretty easy with the resources.