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Today's setup for the #fediverse was mostly for #mastodon - finding some default block lists, setting policies and rules, etc. But I did get to set up a #relay for some travel themed topics for the soon to arrive #keyboardvagabond collection of fediverse apps. I'm getting closer, though there's still more working to do, such as getting hcaptcha to work properly.

But what I do have is:

Upcoming:
#Piefed, #Bookwyrm, #Matrix, and a landing page.
I have some other ideas in the works as well, but my goal is to have a proper launch within a month. Let's hope. I hate setting timelines, but I have reasons haha.

Another week of progress in getting set up with the #fediverse! It's been a hell of a journey getting set up and some of my aspirations, like having all apps be able to be connected with external #SSO, won't happen (#pixelfed doesn't support it).

They still need more work and setup, but I'm also running #writefreely and #picsur. I have #cloudflare caching images and resources and responsiveness is looking pretty good despite the server being located in the EU and I'm in the US.

I've mis-mounted storage, done a ton of wipes, nearly got my federated local domains wrong. So many minor things. I still need to get actual admin stuff like captcha and sign in set up, but the infrastructure is there.

One of the things I'd like to do as well is to make a landing website with details on services provided, how to sign up, etc. It'd also be cool to get someone to do some iconography and make a mascot before it goes live.

Pending services:

  • piefed
  • #bookwyrm
  • maybe #Matrix. I've been using it on my own for a while, but even when switching from the main server to another implementation, I'm not sure it's ready.
  • a wiki

But so far, we have a 2 node #kubernetes #cluster with backups, replication & fault tolerance, caching, etc.

I've learned so much from doing this. Is is stuff I could repeat? dunno.

stic.earth is a collection of privacy-respecting, self-hosted applications and services, which includes fantastic.earth, my server. It currently runs these services:

- #Mastodon (Microblogging)
- #Pixelfed (Image posting)
- #Bookwyrm (Book reading tracking)
- #Miniflux + #Feedlynx (Feed reading + Read-later bookmarking)
- #Nextcloud (Office suite and cloud storage)
- #Hedgedoc (Collaborative Markdown editing)
- #Plausible (Privacy friendly website analytics)
- #UptimeKuma (Monitoring for websites)

stic.earth is paid and invite-only. If you know any existing members personally, and would like to use well-moderated and fast services, please reach out to them for an invite.

Do you know there's a #fediverse alternative to Amazon-owned #goodreads ? #Bookwyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. You can follow and interact with users on different #Bookwyrm instances and on #mastodon . You can import from a Goodreads CSV export. You can create private shelves and curated lists. Join us at ramblingreaders.org or choose one of the other instances available #books #reading #bookstodon @bookstodon

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My process for #BookWyrm is:

1. Search for the ISBN on OpenLibrary.org .
2. If it's not there,
2a) search for the book on search.worldcat.org,
2b) create a new book entry on #OpenLibrary , using the data from Worldcat,
2c) add the cover image from Amazon, other book sales platforms, or if necessary by making my own photo.
3) Import the book into BookWyrm, using its OpenLibrary ID.

I can do this pretty quickly, these days.