Hometown is basically Mastodon with a few twists, the big one being that in addition to broadcasting twitter-style posts to the wider internet you can also post "local-only": these posts go to people on your small server who have agreed to the same social norms that you have.

Darius Kazemi

@tinysubversions

I usually post a link to http://runyourown.social when news like this comes up. Today I'll add there are two hosts I know of that will run my software Hometown for you and your community:

https://federation.spacebear.ee/software/hometown
https://fedi.monster/ (available as a Mastodon sub-option) https://twitter.com/davidfaber/status/1584961475281494016

10/25/2022, 12:11:07 PM

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Darius Kazemi

@tinysubversions

Hometown is basically Mastodon with a few twists, the big one being that in addition to broadcasting twitter-style posts to the wider internet you can also post "local-only": these posts go to people on your small server who have agreed to the same social norms that you have.

10/25/2022, 12:16:08 PM

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Retweets: 2

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