I'm glad to say that Bikers Go Social is currently working with
@gofedi to migrate our instance across to carry on our instance.
There's a few changes as an admin I will do to better the experience for Bikers Go that I already have in mind. But would love some of your great ideas as well.
If I worked on a way for people to Self-Host there own instance by resetting it up like I'd self-host at mine but then give them the device so they don't have to pay monthly fees, Do you think people would pay for that?
I'm not sure how much work it would be fully but might get a Raspberry Pi or something to test the theory out but I think I could create a Mastodon Instance that can be 'portable' / be sold to people to self-host in there own home.
I want to make it easy for people to self-host, especially for those who know nothing about coding and don't have time / want to learn. The goal would be to have a 100% functional instance that would be plug-n-go no worries about typing in commands, illegal instances / users ext.
I want to be able to easily give the update code to users when it comes to update time, I think the only thing they'll have to worry about if they don't manage there own DNS is paying for the domain, but other than that it should be 100% free from my hands if they wish to run it on there own.
Who knows if I can do it but I'm thinking about testing this as I really want to help bring people to the Fediverse, and why not help people run there own servers.
@BBCRD Would love to see some of your shows, iPlayer, BBC News, Weather... Just anything else come from your Mastodon instance.
You are testing the grounds for the Fediverse but seemly not putting much into it, there are already some bots that post your BBC articles on here. So obviously there are people looking for your content.
I understand that the teams to do with those projects need to be contacted and will be the ones to maintain and post up but it will be amazing to see more than the 4 accounts on the instance after 2+ years of you testing the ground.