three genders in a wenchcoat

this is the next place we hope to call posting-home. we intend to set up a node this week or next. our node will (initially?) be invite-only because, put simply, we don't want to have to worry about moderation within the node; but if we've interacted more than a few times and you'd like to stay close, feel free to drop a line on discord and we'll keep you posted. 💜

still thinking about Website League (It's like a confederation of websites in here)

so here's the deal. i'm working on learning how to use docker to get Pixelfed up and running properly, so I can build a place for cohost's photography community. at least one friend is building a place for therians and other creatures, which I am planning to federate with.

This would be an island - it's a separate federation, not directly connected to the Fediverse at large. this allows post-cohost culture to remain isolated from mastodon so we don't piss people off

Important Points

• I am not in charge of it and don't want to be in charge of it
• Character limits as large as possible - it's not microblogging
• probably no CSS crime support unless someone figures out how to implement it, sadly
• Intended primarily for Cohost users and those who liked Cohost's style
• Allowlist-only: a site has to intentionally join the island, and others must choose to federate with it.
• Isolated from the Fediverse, to allow people to continue posting as they have here without getting in fights for not conforming to the Fediverse/Mastodon culture at large
• Single base set of community guidelines, based off Cohost's (maybe with some modification)
• To federate, you must base your server's rules on those community guidelines and enforce them. No Racists Or Chuds Allowed
• We will need some kind of decision-making apparatus (this one's hard)
• Single-user instances can federate with us, and with the Fediverse at the same time, as long as they agree to follow the rules and be chill
• Ideally, accounts are approved manually, to avoid spam and try to keep bastards out
• No minors (sorry kids)
• No Mastodon (the software) instances allowed currently, as I am told there's currently an unreported bug that would mildly compromise the island's isolation ("if an instance in your federation has a user who boosts an external post, and the instance that external post is on does not have authorized_fetch enabled, it can result in a fat boost which includes the post contents inline and this will end up showing up to other instances even though the instance it came from isn't on their allowlist")
• There are many other kinds of software that do what Mastodon does; it's heavyweight and stuff like GoToSocial is easier for smaller instances

ironically i think this is gonna need a website

i've spun up a discord server to get some discussion going on this concept. this is a cool outline proposal, and i like the ideas i've seen bouncing around here - but if we wanna make this happen, we gotta come up with plans. discord does suck, i know, but in terms of quickly organizing something, it's probably the easiest and most accessible way for most people to get on board.

if you're interested, pop in and throw whatever ideas you have out there!

as in, directly involved in steering and planning to run a node. it's been a lot to keep up with, which is why I've been scarce here. nothing's truly certain until servers are up and federated and public, but balls are rolling steadily so far, and we want to be running for real (or at least have a status-tracking website) before cohost freezes over.

if you're interested in following more closely or potentially contributing, I believe @srxl's Discord link above is still good (if not leave a comment).

watch this space still, I'm not done with cohost until cohost is done, but I intend this to be my Primary Next Thing¹ and I hope to see as many familiar faces there as possible!

1. because like. next best option is looking like Bluesky? which. y'know.