I'll vote (e) :

IMO, mastodon.art makes sense sense as it 1/ relates to art and hosts similar projects such as Krita + quite a few artists, and 2/ actively stands for being a safe space - I tend to see the fact that they have rather strict policies and processes about who they federate with as a thing to support vs leaving because of it.

@René : masto.hosts hosts mastodon.art, so in a sense we are already hosted by them ^^

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Background

Inkscape has had it's account on Mastodon.art. Because of various moderation decisions there and elsewhere in the Fediverse having an account there has been more work, and has less reach than we'd like. Instead of choosing another server that may end up in the situation the proposal here is to create one using the the Inkscape.org domain and could host our news feeds. This would hopefully allow us to steer clear of politics in the Fediverse and provide an authoritative account at our domain.

To do this we are suggesting using masto.host, a popular Mastodon hosting service that is used by a large number of services and is located in the EU. We reached out to the maintainer and he said with the number of followers and the number of servers we connect to, we would probably need the $20/mo option. We can adjust that in the future based on our usage, but this proposal goes with that recommendation.

Assuming this proposal is approved the next steps would be to get SFC legal to review the terms of service from masto.host and ensure they are okay. Then have SFC setup the admin account and create the accounts that Vectors requests (or other teams?) for posting. Then we'll migrate the current Inkscape account to the new setup.

Votes

a) Approve SFC to setup a recurring payment to Masto.host for up to $25/mo for the purpose of Mastodon hosting on the Inkscape.org domain

b) Approve hosting on masto.host but at the $_/mo level

c) Approve switching to hosting on our own domain but think that we should maintain the Mastodon instance

d) We should instead move our account to: _________

e) We should keep our Mastodon account where it is

f) Something else: __________

Timeline

Vote will be closed July 11th, 2025

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