Tips on creating a Mastodon instance?
#mastodonhelp 
I TURNED MYSELF INTO A SOCIAL NETWORK, MORTYYYY!! I'M MASTO RIIIIIIIIICK! https://mastodon.technology/media/JiFE3_hfTBQeXyWNJKQ
✨ It's live! My start to finish guide for getting your own #mastodon instance up and running with Docker on Ubuntu 16.04: https://github.com/ummjackson/mastodon-guide/blob/master/up-and-running.md
I've tested this on both Vultr and DigitalOcean and the instructions should be pretty much copy/paste for everyone. Hope this helps some people! 😀
Good luck and feedback appreciated!! (cc @Gargron / @TonyNof / @david / @vielmetti / @lmorchard )
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INTRO TO FEDERATION:
1. "mastodon" is a piece of software that runs on a server. There's a lot of servers that run it & u can follow ppl on other servers.
2. When u follow someone from another server, your server receives their toots.
3. The federated TL is all public toots that the server receives, ie all of the toots from everyone that ppl on your server follow.
4. ERGO: if u want to see more toots in the fed TL, follow + get other ppl on your server to follow ppl from other servers!
Nice, just passed 2k users. https://mastodon.technology/media/BVdDK2Ub0fGokDq2DHU
