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I had no idea of the size and variety of the Fediverse! It has me feeling a bit overwhelmed. I'm enjoying BookWyrm very much; it's the GoodReads/LibraryThing replacement I've been looking for for years.

I love the simplicity of Paper.wf for blogging. It's truly elegant; I just click the link and start typing. But as far as I can tell there's no way for others to find my blog or for me to find other blogs on the site. There's no browse or follow feature. Nor can anyone comment on my posts! Those seem to me to be HUGE omissions.

Have you used any Fediverse blogging options? What are they like? And what other Fediverse services would you recommend? Other than Mastodon, I've already tried that (it didn't excite me).

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got you. Totally understand. I used to be in the same situation. $5/month is sometimes better spent somewhere else. With Owncast you only really need it up when you're stream. You could do that from your PC you're playing on, but idk the kind of overhead that'd cause.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm, it looks like people have "live" sites up that are at least reachable and they aren't streaming currently. Did I misread how Owncast works, or is there something else going on here with these sites?

As for running it during my stream (once I move out of my current apartment), I could have my laptop running Owncast possibly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So when you go to the page that's offline, that's because the Owncast software is up and running as a webserver. I've seen some folks that take the entire page down when they're not streaming. Really only difference is if there's a landing page there when you're not streaming or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wonder if it would be possible to set up something that 307's to a static page when I'm not live

Edit: another concern is that in running it from my laptop, would I have to go through port forwarding so that a DNS provider can connect with the owncast instance? Because while I'm not completely averse to it (unless someone has an opsec reason for not doing so and has a better alternative), it's a lot of work and will absolutely have to be something I do after I move out of my current place