@mkj @molly0xfff personal hosting is a strong candidate for "truly better", yeah.

groxx

@mkj @molly0xfff personal hosting is a strong candidate for "truly better", yeah. Definitely agreed there.

But I'll point out that neither author hosts their own. Nor are they recommending hosting their own (as part of this post, which is all many not-already-subscribed readers will read. I'm not sure elsewhere).

If the claim is "get free from enshittification, I did", they're not taking or recommending that critical step to *actually avoid it*. The article just says "use mastodon".

groxx

@mkj @molly0xfff it's less of a "nothing here is correct, shame" and more of a "this is misleading in ways that have soured many on the entire fedi thing". Fedi is great, but it's rarely an easy option to gain any real benefits, and presenting it as one is problematic.

Molly White

@groxx @mkj fwiw both cory and I host our own websites. can't speak for him but that is my preference as far as avoiding enshittification.

groxx

@molly0xfff @mkj yeah, and I think that's what most should do. Extremely cheap, generally migratable, and about the only enshittification risk is ICANN which is pretty acceptable. POSSE is great. A bit high-skill, but not bad compared to many computer things, and there are a lot of side benefits to that knowledge.

It is a shame POSSE social networking isn't a thing yet. Outside very small niches anyway.