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grishka / Smithereen

Federated, ActivityPub-compatible social network server with friends, walls, and groups.
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Read me should list a test instance for people to check it out. #55

Open bigOconstant opened 1 year ago

bigOconstant commented 1 year ago

I'm looking for a Smithereen instance to see how it works. Can't find one. I hear on hacker news there is atleast a test instance. Can we link to it in the readme? Even if new accounts occasionally get deleted.

grishka commented 1 year ago

There's currently my personal instance at https://friends.grishka.me, but I'm kinda stingy with approving new accounts because I'm unwilling to deal with moderation.

Friendica used to have a demo instance that deleted accounts after 24 hours, but now that domain is for sale 🤔 I might consider setting up something similar after I implement account deletion (both local and federated).

bigOconstant commented 1 year ago

but I'm kinda stingy with approving new accounts because I'm unwilling to deal with moderation.

I understand. Moderation is not fun. Can never make everyone happy.

Friendica used to have a demo instance that deleted accounts after 24 hours

I think that would be a good idea. Could literally just be a sql stored procedure that comes though and deletes everyone + post/comments/groups except admin/some list of approved users every 12 or 24 hours.

This would help attract more developers and and pull request.