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kgoetz<p>Although there are a couple more days in the month, today is a wrap for me on <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Fedibruary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fedibruary</span></a> .<br>To round out the month I installed <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GoToSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoToSocial</span></a> (<a href="https://aus.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> alternative <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> service) in a test environment and played around.</p><p>I'm pretty happy with it! the install was simple (barring a confusing error message or two), <a href="https://aus.social/tags/pachli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pachli</span></a> worked with it (once I changed from port 8080 to 443) and it has a nice little admin portal to manage the deployments website.</p><p>There are a bunch of settings related to <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SMTP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SMTP</span></a> and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/OIDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OIDC</span></a> which make it attractive as a medium term deployment project when I want to run my own server for reals.</p>
kgoetz<p>This weeks <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Fedibruary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fedibruary</span></a> topic was an <a href="https://aus.social/tags/XMPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XMPP</span></a> / <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Jabber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jabber</span></a> server and following a suggestion here on masto (thanks <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@erebion" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>erebion</span></a></span> !) I installed Prosody .<br>In a move which probably made my life harder overall, I decided to install within our network and not on a public server. This is a problem because XMPP servers push mail to each other like SMTP... which I should have remembered before hand....</p><p>Anyway, I did successfully set up <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Prosody" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Prosody</span></a> and did some experiments, messaging to my <a href="https://aus.social/tags/xmpp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>xmpp</span></a>.social account and a second account I had created on the private server.</p><p>Because (i believe) of split dns issues i was having the users on my private server can't share media or files . I hope that would be a matter of correctly configuring dns and the issue might go away.</p><p>I'd have liked to have done a better job of this one but I think this is a valid proof of concept and I will be storing my notes ("documentation") away for a future live deployment.</p>
kgoetz<p>So I've discovered over the last few days that my <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Fedibruary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fedibruary</span></a> plan has a problem: In many ways I don't actually know what I want to end up with.<br>The <a href="https://aus.social/tags/chat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chat</span></a> element was easy: I wanted to spent more hours boring lots of people so <a href="https://aus.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> was the obvious choice.</p><p>My plan for week two was <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Pixelfed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pixelfed</span></a> or <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Peertube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Peertube</span></a> but after spending the last couple of days looking at them I'm no longer sure they're what I want.<br>Why? Because I've realised what I really want is something more like a private media library/player where I can sometimes link the content to other people. Pixelfed is definitely a platform focused on posting, not being a media library.<br>I've also considered <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MediaGoblin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediaGoblin</span></a> as a result of that discovery but it doesn't feel complete enough (sorry guys), from looking at their site and the known public instances.<br>I've been considering making week two my week to migrate away from <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> photos by setting up <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Piwigo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Piwigo</span></a> . This also doesn't appeal to me as a <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Fedibruary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fedibruary</span></a> activity since piwigo doesn't have <a href="https://aus.social/tags/activitypub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activitypub</span></a> support.</p><p>What to do? I'm unsure. I may install Pixelfed or peertube just to experience the process, I may bring <a href="https://aus.social/tags/funkwhale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>funkwhale</span></a> forward in my plans and do it this week, I might try an <a href="https://aus.social/tags/XMPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XMPP</span></a> / <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Jabber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jabber</span></a> server install but I just don't know 🤯</p><p>What I do know is that I've spent two of my five days trying to decide what to do.</p>
kgoetz<p>In a couple of days January will end and that means we're about to be in... <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Fedibruary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fedibruary</span></a> !</p><p>This year I'll be testing out a different <a href="https://aus.social/tags/fedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fedi</span></a> project, or taking extra steps to <a href="https://aus.social/tags/decentralise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decentralise</span></a>, each week.</p><p>At this stage my Fedibruary plan is:</p><p>Week one:<br>- Announce my migration intent to <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LinkedIn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LinkedIn</span></a><br>- Where I have a contact on LinkedIn and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> I will remove the connection on LinkedIn</p><p>Week two:<br>- Spin up a <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Pixelfed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pixelfed</span></a> instance to play with</p><p>Week three:<br>- Sign up for, or deploy, an <a href="https://aus.social/tags/XMPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>XMPP</span></a> / <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Jabber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jabber</span></a> service (many many years since I had working XMPP!)</p><p>Week four:<br>- Undecided but I'm mainly considering <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Peertube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Peertube</span></a> or <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MediaGoblin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MediaGoblin</span></a> (it'll depend on how week two goes)<br>- If Pixelfed goes really well and I don't feel like a video focused platform would be useful to me I'll dip in to my other considerations below</p><p>My 'overflow' / alternative week four is a <a href="https://aus.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/chat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chat</span></a> deployment of some sort... I couldn't decide which one to install though!</p><p>Week four I also considered the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/defederated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>defederated</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/riff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>riff</span></a>.cc (but I don't think its easy enough for me to install that yet).</p>