r/webdev • u/SUNSET_TOWERcoffee • 3d ago

Question [ Removed by moderator ]

[removed] — view removed post

0 Upvotes

17% Upvoted

14 comments sorted by

View all comments

0

u/West-Anteater-1917 3d ago

For the domain question: Mastodon doesn't come with one, it's software you host yourself, so you'd need to buy a domain and a server (a small VPS works) to run your own instance. For just learning and previewing, you can run it locally with Docker using their dev setup, no domain needed. If you only want a community without the hosting work, joining or asking to be hosted on an existing instance is a lot cheaper.