western.social is a network of Mastodon sites targetted at microbloggers in the Western US. There is a site for each state, like az.social, and one premium site western.social which will be launched later and may have advanced features.
The sites are operated by Austin Godber (godber@western.social) and XXXX. The sites will cover costs through tiered subscriptions and "sponsorships" which are effectively banner ads without the tracking.
- Patreon
- live
- more posts
- edit welcome messages
- revise tiers to include posts and governance polls
- Backups
- temporary manual procedure for az.social
- automated prod process
- Proper Text on Sites, rules etc
- rules
- privacy policy
- Get listed on main server list - see https://joinmastodon.org/covenant
- I'm good with all of these covenants, but there are two points that I think are out of my hands WRT scaling, #4 depends on how costs evolve.
- Moderation
- find user
- Ansible
- System Operations
- WIP - configuration
- observability
- alerting
- backups
- Legal Entity
- western.social LLC
- western.social EIN
- additional site deployment
- western.social
- Ca.social
- Co.social
- Wa.social
- Or.social
- co.social
- ut.social
- tx.social
- Fork critical code on github
- mastodon
- mastodon iOS client
- mastodon android client
- metatext client
Content and user adoption are the biggest problem
- Find existing content in mastodon
- Ethically generated content
- Asking for permission to mirror
- Posts from public sources
Identify usability issues in app and site and work for resolutions.
Losing draft posts in web client.