Hey selfhosters,
I’m looking for some help finding a selfhosted local only social network with mobile apps (for the less tech savvy).
Basically my family lives all over the place and we want an easy way to share photos of our children and family events with comments and engagement. We are privacy minded and don’t want pictures of our kids drifting over a social network. I’m struggling to find any software that is always local only and private.
Somethings I have seen that seem promising but not quite right:
- Secure Scuttlebutt Apps
- Mastodon +Hometown
- Immich
- Just a plane old blog
Hometown is almost perfect but it still allows for federation and that will be hard to teach some of my family about. Immich looks great! But doesn’t have anyway to engage nor feed.
Hopefully someone out there knows of something. Ideally it would have an interface like social media without the intent to reach the wider world outside of my family.
Oh that is promising…do you know if that can be selected as default or does it always have to be applied per post?
On iOS, Tusker (for Mastodon and Pixelfed) has settings to set the default for composing and replying:
edit: also note that you can set your pixelfed account to private in general, but I think you have to check that box from the website interface. None of the apps I have include that setting.
Might be good to create an account and check it out yourself :)
You’re awesome. I’ll go dig deeper on this :) Thank you
If you’re comfortable with poking into code changes, you might even also try to find the place where incoming posts are processed in the code, and just flip it so every submitted post is set to followers-only.
I’m willing to try but I’d be stretching what I know to find that. Might be a good excuse to learn