Run your own federated social node within your Nextcloud hosting and connect to the Fediverse via the open ActivityPub protocol

Yes it's still in Alpha release but its working quite well - all I'm really missing is the ability to attach an image and to edit my profile info but posting, following, being followed, etc all working OK.

What this means is if you already have a recent version of Nextcloud, instead of creating a social network account at one of the Mastodon, Diaspora, Friendica, Hubzilla, etc nodes, you could just use your own Nextcloud hosting with the only effort being to tick on the social module in Nextcloud. If your Nextcloud hosting carries your own domain name (like mine does) then this would be part of your Fediverse social address.

FYI this social network is similar to Twitter and Mastodon in that it gives you basic status update posts without other fancy features but as you host this one yourself you set the rules and you won't find your user name taken by someone else, nor anyone censoring your posts. Anyone across the whole Diverse can follow you and like or reply, but sorry nothing from Twitter as that is a walled garden.

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source https://gadgeteer.co.za/run-your-own-federated-social-node-within-your-nextcloud-hosting-and-connect-fediverse-open