Local-Only Posting
Added 2019-10-15 18:33:24 +0000 UTCHey there everyone! After getting a few messages about this, I have been doing a bit of research about local-only posting and what it would look like to implement that feature on our instance.
See my thread about it here: https://merveilles.town/@somnius/102967788986849037
To gather more insight on the level of interest in this feature, I'm running a poll both on the instance and also on here, for you all!
Here's a breakdown of my research so far:
Benefits
- By using glitch-soc or hometown, we not only get local-only posting, but a bunch of new features as well!
- Easy to migrate to a those forks, just need to do a few git commands and rebuild assets
- Maintainers are actively working on and accept questions on those forks
- Makes our instance feel much more customized to ourselves
Detriments
- None of the native mobile apps seem to support those features, so you'd have to use the web client to locally post
- Both those forks, currently, have one primary maintainer each. I'm worried about what that implies if something happens to either of them
- Since these are forked from the main Mastodon repo, we would typically have to wait for upstream updates a bit longer (currently, we'd have to roll back a version which could be really messy)
- If something happens and I have to roll back to the upstream branch, that would be amazingly messy. Old posts would be broken, and posts meant to only be shared with certain groups of people would be shared with the fediverse again.
So, I'd like to know: are you interested in having local-only posting, knowing all of the above? Please let me know how you'd like this implemented by voting in the poll below!
