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weird reading an article in Fast Company about the internet treehouse I hang out on with a couple of dozen other people fastcompany.com/90373954/done-with-facebook-and-twitter-heres-how-to-start-your-own-private-social-network
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but as people migrate away from public space to private spaces, it's worth reminding people that you don't have to accept the stuff that Discord or Slack or whatever gives you: you can run this software yourself, you can shape the space you live in.
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big rec for Darius's guide to how to do this, and how he runs friend camp: runyourown.social. it's focused on Mastodon, but the real meat of the problem is the people, not the software