Is there a Mastodon instance that's basically Instagram? I suppose all you'd need for a masto insta (mastogram?) would be different CSS to display toots on just those instances that want to do it, and people could still follow from other instances and see the default image display... Kinda best of both worlds, photo-heavy display if you want it, vanilla masto if you don't.
@jasonsteakums This is a cool sounding idea!
I wonder what those who know more about hosting these things might have to say re:the logistics around image file sizes?
@b_cavello @jasonsteakums I'm thinking you'd probably want to use something like S3 for image storage.
This is a really interesting question, actually. I've been looking at Mastodon as a final product—didn't occur to me to look at it as, I don't know, sort of like Wordpress for social networking.
And you could call it "Mammogram" because it's based on Mastodon which is KINDA SORTA LIKE A MAMMOTH
@csilverman @b_cavello I love the "WordPress for social networking" way of looking at it! Actually, there are a lot of former Vine users out there who might jump at a good platform that picks up where it left off, and most of the pieces are in place with Mastodon...
@jasonsteakums @b_cavello heh. I mean, there's literally BuddyPress, but somehow that never really took off.
I don't know. I feel like when you're dealing with media—images, video—that increases complexity by orders of magnitude, since you have to deal with a lot more data. I doubt Mastodon has been designed to handle that, beyond embedding the occasional image.
But I'm a technical dunce who hasn't even set up a Mastodon instance yet so what do I know.
@csilverman @jasonsteakums But maybe if making an account essentially was running your own server...
There are still issues with longevity and so forth, but that's continually the case, honestly. We might do well to have more conversations about the ephemeral nature of our very intimate and significant data.
