In the light of renewed conversations about Meta and Threads, I would like to remind everyone that it is now easier than ever to run your own fediverse community, without having to worry about setting up and maintaining your own server.
Website hosting companies tend to need your real name, real address, and real billing info to verify those things are correct. Isnt Medium more private, because you don’t need to feed it any of that?
No, if you know where to look. Medium is just awful. There are too many things wrong with Medium that I won’t elaborate here, but I’ll leave some sources:
The alternatives that I recommend on my comment have decent privacy policies and are not even close as an abuser as Medium is. They are also free software.
Here there are some decent server providers recommendations for self-hosters which require nor your real name or billing address in case anyone is interested.
I've taken out a VPS from Ionos (formerly 1and1). It has 1 vCore, 1 GB RAM, 10GB SSD, unlimited traffic, root access, and a choice of distros, including Debian, Ubuntu & CentOS. Plesk is also offered free, but, I've not used it.
All for the ridiculously cheap price of £1 (£1.20 incl. VAT) per month. At this price it would be rude not to test it, which is what I'm doing.
The spec is limited, but, I can think of hundreds of uses at this price point.
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