I don’t think there’s any other than being selfhostable software, just make him aware

Maybe I misunderstood what you meant with “as it gets”? I thought it basically means it"can’t be more left because it’s already maximum left" and I didn’t see how that’s supported by your experience.

I think kolektiva is defederated from some because of rather loose moderation but todon is mostly accepted

That doesn’t seem to exist? I can’t reach it

That implies US politics would be more left than German politics? Neither German nor US politics are “as left as it gets”, so I’m not sure they are a great measure here.

It’s a general purpose instance. Gargron may be left leaning, but I don’t think he’s into radical left politics?

There are instances with leftist statements in their about section, openly leftist teams and largely lefty/political local timelines.

todon.eu and todon.nl as well as kolektiva.social are large, anarchist leaning, instances. There’s plenty smaller ones but those are good starting points.

It’s absolutely not “as left as it gets”

Setting up and maintaining the services is one thing. But as soon as you get actual users and want to offer them a good experience, there’s a lot of additional work: writing guides, answering support mails, announce maintenance downtimes before they happen, etc etc. You can start with an old computer in your basement, but maybe the Internet connection is too bad? Are you aware of and equipped against legal risks etc?

There’s more groups like disroot and I think some are looking for volunteers, maybe help them out to see how stuff works before starting over?

Here’s some of the top of my head (all in or around Germany to my knowledge):

• riseup
• pub.solar
• systemausfall
• systemli

Longer list: Radical Servers

That’s just how the fediverse works. Your instance only know accounts from other instances by boosting or directly searching for them. Not seeing most accounts from newly federated instances is by design.

I’d just try some random general instance on each service. Especially if you want to try them. You can still move later!

The gas chamber guys? Good riddance

You could add a bit of info what tenfingers is while spreading the info. I now know you have a new community, but I had no idea what it was about until reading the sidebar

nutomic and dessalines are the Lemmy project, they founded it. You can’t have Lemmy without them if you don’t fork.

My initial reaction was basically one of your headlines - “Desktop apps with extra steps”. But I guess you are right that selfhosted apps are often better than plain desktop apps. Interesting idea in general.

A cool thing to have with this would be backups, designed in a way that makes it easy to manually back up on a USB drive. Not necessarily automated, but maybe with automatic reminders “You didn’t back up your data in X days - Backup now - Close”.