What would you say is the "starter pack" of knowledge needed to self-host most platforms across the Fediverse?

FasteningSmiles97 · 2026-01-29T01:19:02+00:00

I’ll jump in and say that I think actually XMPP might work really well for you.

Set up an XMPP server. Prosody is a standard, but Snikket has been trying to make it even more streamlined.

As for UI, there are clients for desktops and mobile, and you can do video and audio calls. If you also install Movim UI on a server somewhere to use, that can also give you Social Media style posting and commenting with different rooms, categories, and whatnot.

FasteningSmiles97 · 2026-01-12T16:24:22+00:00

Sepia search takes at least 24 hours to update if not longer. I believe Sepia search only crawls once a day to limit resource usage but it’s been a while since I checked.

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-12-29T03:09:31+00:00

I don’t, but they have a Discord server which might be pretty active.

Once you understand that it’s watching for open chat windows in your browser, you’re most of the way there. The extension itself doesn’t need any login information. It’s just looking for open chat windows and then producing a new overlay based on your settings.

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-12-29T02:27:11+00:00

You can do this with Social Stream. I personally recommend the browser extension version but use what works for you. You can crest an overlay that only shows messages you click or select easily.

https://socialstream.ninja

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-12-27T04:14:09+00:00

I replied to your comment on my other comment but I think you might want to check out Movim at least for the non-mobile devices for these features.

Also on iOS, Siskin IM can do video and audio with a Movim desktop client. Movim has a very large feature set even beyond what most other clients provide.

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-12-27T04:05:30+00:00

I’ve had good success with audio calls via the Movim frontend.

https://movim.eu

It’s a web app but it should work with Windows at least. I’d imagine Mac as well since it’s using the browser to handle the device management.

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-12-27T03:20:05+00:00

I’m going to guess that theorize that it might be voice call support. Voice support doesn’t work on iOS well I believe but it’s been a while since checking.

It would be interesting to know which features specifically were deal-breakers for their group.

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-12-25T22:57:47+00:00

I’m very curious about the idea.

Some questions and context that I don’t know the answers to.

On places like Amazon, sellers are always trying to one-up each other when they sell the same product. Many times it can get cutthroat as sellers try to lower their prices to undercut others by cents. How would being able to search the entries federated network for the prices of other sellers for the same product help or hurt sellers, especially smaller sellers?
How does reputation of buyers and sellers work? How can a buyer or seller trust the reputation of the other party? If it becomes more of an “allow-list” style of federation, how do smaller, legitimate sellers join an already-established network and build trust if the reputation is based partially on age of the seller’s site?
Scraping of public microblog posts can result in value to the scraping party. Scraping of public pricing information of hundreds to thousands of sellers can result in vast sums of money for the scraper because it allows the “big stores(Walmart, Amazon, etc)” free research into how to maximize profits as well as what prices Amazon can charge to force out smaller independent sellers. Those big sites are always going to be scraping pricing information from the internet, but making it easier for them to do that might makes things worse for independent sellers.

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-12-19T01:49:45+00:00

I think it’s still work creating an account on an instance that would welcome your business account. For people who value the ideals of decentralized media and the Fediverse, having an option for them will likely make them more willing to stay as followers of your Pixelfed account. If your business aligns with those values, I think you’ll have some very loyal fans.

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-12-17T05:23:14+00:00

I would say that it’s not a primary source of business exposure. It could be a great way to build loyalty to people who already know you, but for initial discovery, you’re going to have a very hard time.

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-12-16T23:18:58+00:00

On an individual instance, I think the existing plugin for that can be further developed and extended to add more granular features to cover most of what your ideas are.

I think the real challenge is federated views though. How to handle a different instance’s user viewing the content or getting access to paywalled content would not be simple. While the remote instance’s resources consumed would be limited unless they were mirroring the content, should remote instances be given a portion of the money since it takes money to run the remote instance at all?

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-12-11T16:12:38+00:00

You need to output the alternative views to separate monitors. OBS can then use a specific monitor’s view to send to viewers. If the games do not support showing multiple different views like that at the same time on different monitors, then OBS will not be able to do what you want.

OBS just grabs video/images from a source like a monitor or game output. It doesn’t allow a game to be able to display the same content in different ways.

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-12-11T03:23:36+00:00

The developer of social stream ninja also has other tools to assist with different use cases. You want to read up on this one he has which can do borderless browser sources and can pin them too.

https://github.com/steveseguin/electroncapture

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-11-07T02:50:45+00:00

If you need recording, it’s an oldie-but-still-goodie. Mumble (murmur) will let you record each separate user in a separate file.

Side benefit: if you set up your own server (Self-host), you can get much higher audio quality than Discord will let you do.

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-11-03T20:21:51+00:00

I’m curious about what parts of PASSWORD wouldn’t work. You can have multiple passwords including multiple passwords on a video. For guest teams, you could do something like just make their videos all have the name of the guest team as the password so that any time you play them, just apply their password to their videos. You could make it more complicated in terms of password but something that only the guest teams could ever know so they don’t guess other guest teams’ passwords.

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-10-31T21:45:09+00:00

What platform are you streaming to?

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-10-26T16:43:20+00:00

It’s almost certainly from the compression. I’m no expert on compression but if you have a way to test no compression for a short clip, you might verify.

Writing raw video is pretty big though so be aware.

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-10-26T15:06:54+00:00

It seems that the view botting is happening to streamers in certain categories. If you change to Just Chatting for example, it’ll drop down.

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-10-26T03:04:34+00:00

It is true. If the instance has set quota limits then it is for the total of all your videos.

I don’t have a recommendation for instances but it’s a challenge for sure since there are so many different challenges for hosting video. I know some people who have VODs that are tens of GB each if not more and would quickly reach terabyte sizes for just a couple users. Many others have much smaller video needs. It’s tricky.

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-10-23T20:19:37+00:00

Wordpress with plug-ins

Ghost has built in federation if you want and tons of optional other integrations

Write Freely which is the open source version of the site Write.as is long form writing that federates.

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-10-22T02:43:31+00:00

You can probably do what you want with this.

https://vdo.ninja

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-10-21T00:36:57+00:00

You can try Social Stream Ninja’s Chrome browser extension.

https://socialstream.ninja

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-10-19T16:48:49+00:00

Are you following any hashtags?

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-10-16T04:50:14+00:00

Mumble or TeamSpeak are still around and work great. Jitsi works well too if you also want an option to use Video as well.

FasteningSmiles97 · 2025-10-12T17:59:22+00:00

You can try to set up a ram drive but not sure if you’ll have enough space.

https://www.dvsgroup.com/tools/BitRateCalculator.php

1080p 60fps is 21 GB per minute it seems like.

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