Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now 
It's all private and closed so only we 3 use it to communicate and share stories with each other!
You can just disable federation and set everything private so it becomes a little intranet for friends!
#Mastodon is really amazing 
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in reply to Toby • • •@tosbourn Disallow everything 😉
Federation is set to limited so only allowed (reversed blocklist)
Toby
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in reply to Toby • • •@tosbourn Oh sorry
Port forward, just reconfig it since we have a new home
it's on a hard to find place but with a domain
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •Using allowlists on Mastodon servers through Limited Federation Mode | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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in reply to stux⚡️ • • •okay, I have Questions... (1) how much does that take in terms of resources? obviously the media takes what it takes, but basic disk/memory/CP?
(2) I take it you do like I do and treat your primary laptop like a desktop, i.e. it never goes to suspend/hibernate? (wouldn't be the first time a lappy got (ab)used like that; I had an old Compaq I once used for a mail server... it was quite the trooper... )
it's a tempting idea; despite the Discord flap being not as huge a deal as it could be, I still have the impetus to get as many resources off capitalista platforms as possible...
ooh, the other question: Given reasonably-competent admin skills, how portable is the resulting dataset? If a laptop starts dying under us, how big of a pain in the ASCII is it to move the instance?
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in reply to StoneBear • • •@stonebear2 1. Almost nothing since we 3 only post sometimes
2. its an old laptop from work that is super eco friendly, just with 24.04 server
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in reply to adingbatponder • • •@adingbatponder Yup! Since the timelines and accounts need logged in accounts to be viewed
We use Glitch-soc for this so we have extra options we neeed
Come On Giant Asteroid!
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in reply to Ikkle Gemz Universe+ • • •@ikklegemzuniverseplus Yes, if you add the right settings it should not make a difference
We also use a domain for access
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Fediverse Relay - Welcome
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