Hey, folks who are customers of a traditional web host (Dreamhost, Namecheap, etc.): If you get a minute, consider asking them nicely if they’re working on adding support for #fediverse apps, #Mastodon probably being the most visible right now. Hopefully with one-click install options like WordPress.
It would be a great way to bring more options to the decentralized web and people who want to use it.
Hat tip to @feditips for helping with this idea.
@feditips @chartier I’d love to see a lightweight single user instance created as an implementation of the Mastodon/ActivityPub APIs. The Docker deployment I run has 4 containers for DB, Web, queues, etc. If you know there’s only one user, you can hardcode a lot of behaviour. Eg drop the entire UI in favour of apps, lighter DB, less queuing, minimal admin.
