I like the idea of creating our own domain but I don't have a good feel as to where it should go. So I'm going to abstain.
----- Original Message ----- | From: "Ted Gould" ted@gould.cx | To: "Inkscape Board" inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.org | Sent: Friday, July 4, 2025 6:26:18 PM | Subject: [Inkscape-board] VOTE: Mastodon Hosting | | | | 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 | _______________________________________________ | Inkscape Board of Directors mailing list -- | inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.org | To unsubscribe send an email to | inkscape-board-leave@lists.inkscape.org |