Setarkus.MX

[…] I do have something that amounts to far more than he ever could hope for. Confidence and people who genuinely love me.

I’m relieved and somewhat disappointed that this didn’t end as I thought it would

Me to my little program for scraping some stories: “Hm, ‘Ignore robots.txt’? Sure, let’s do that by default please :D”

A few questions as you’re self hosting an instance and I haven’t read much about it yet.
Are you hosting it on personal hardware?
Can you just choose any free name for the domain if it’s on your own hardware or do you need to rent one regardless?
Do you keep it active all the time or turn it off for the night/other periods of time where you know you won’t use it?

From what I know, the instances share the posts between each other, but they need to have had contact with another instance somehow before they can get posts from there. Something like a user searching for an instance that isn’t yet known to their “home” instance yet or following a link to it. As I understood it, this lets the instances know of each other. Posts of unknown instances won’t show up on your instance until the connection has been made. So maybe a super instance could somehow include a newly created instance as soon as it has connected with any other instance already in the super instance.

(might not be too coherent since I know little about this all as of now ^^)