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So all of these federated mastodon instances are neat, but I'm not seeing anyone making up interesting weird rule sets yet.

It seems like if we're gonna to build a galaxy, our planets should have cultures, right?

I want instances where you're not allowed to use the letter p. Where you can only use a different subset of unicode every day. Where you can only post from certain geographic locations or while going certain speeds.

Basically, I want oulipo mastodon.

qDot @qdot

@lmorchard I DID NOT AND YES I AGREE WITH THIS.

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@lmorchard Also I need to talk to you about your instance setup, how hard it was, etc. Was looking at doing mine off ec2, but it's a minimum of $16/month there.

@qdot I've had a mid-tier Ubuntu VPS from prgmr.com running for a few years with random experiments & things. About $20/mo but Mastodon's not all I have on it. Was cake to set up with Docker. Not too much harder to move to direct install on the host - I just kind of read through the Vagrantfile & Dockerfile and did those things by hand