switching.social
Do you like Mastodon, but wish there was a privacy option to only post on your home instance without federating?
There's a fork of Mastodon for that called Hometown:
https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown
You can still post normal posts that federate, but Hometown also lets you post non-federating posts if you prefer.
It also has other differences such as rendering full articles from Write Freely (and other federated blogging services).
It's by @darius
switching.social
p.s. Just to make clear, this information is intended for instance admins rather than end users.
If you're an end user who wants the option of instance-only posts, please contact your instance admin and send them the link to Hometown.
switching.social
I think you're right, it's based on other forks (including Glitch) which are credited in the link.
switching.social
I think you're right, Glitch is mentioned in the link:
"I don't intend to stray very far from mainline Mastodon with this fork. If you want something that provides a ton of new features and widgets and stuff, the Mastodon Glitch Edition fork is a wondrous kitchen sink of major and minor tweaks."
switching.social
Does Zot have onboarding for non-tech people?
switching.social
I agree.
Apparently some of the features first used in the Glitch fork were later added to main Mastodon.
Maybe "hometown posts" will appear in Masto itself at some point?
switching.social
It's an interesting debate on there, thanks for the link.
(I'd tend towards allowing it as long as it's not default.)
switching.social
According to @darius this has been discussed for a while on the standard Mastodon github page:
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