If you’re on mastodon.cloud, time to move to a new server that’s actively maintained and properly moderated.
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If you’re on mastodon.cloud, time to move to a new server that’s actively maintained and properly moderated.
#fediblock @mayintoronto https://beige.party/@mayintoronto/116403176082615270
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If you’re on mastodon.cloud, time to move to a new server that’s actively maintained and properly moderated.
#fediblock @mayintoronto https://beige.party/@mayintoronto/116403176082615270
@aral @mayintoronto I keep wondering if something like the FreedomBox blend of Debian https://www.freedombox.org/download/debian/ could include a setup for a home mastodon and if this would be a good idea?
I like that a family/community could have control of their own data and have their own identity and ethos.
On the other hand I suspect that there could be alot more fediblock-ing activity as these individual instances may not follow decent moderation approaches.
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@aral @mayintoronto I keep wondering if something like the FreedomBox blend of Debian https://www.freedombox.org/download/debian/ could include a setup for a home mastodon and if this would be a good idea?
I like that a family/community could have control of their own data and have their own identity and ethos.
On the other hand I suspect that there could be alot more fediblock-ing activity as these individual instances may not follow decent moderation approaches.
@fionasboots@tech.lgbt @aral@mastodon.ar.al @mayintoronto@beige.party even my small former single-user instance after running it for a year used to suck up 5 GB of RAM, occupy 100 GB of disk in spite of multiple rounds of compaction and used to smash Redis.
Unfortunately Mastodon isn't something that can be self-hosted on a small home setup by someone who doesn't have much experience in maintaining this kind of resource-hungry systems.
That doesn't mean however that more lightweight implementations (GoToSocial or even snac) couldn't be viable options of course.
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@fionasboots@tech.lgbt @aral@mastodon.ar.al @mayintoronto@beige.party even my small former single-user instance after running it for a year used to suck up 5 GB of RAM, occupy 100 GB of disk in spite of multiple rounds of compaction and used to smash Redis.
Unfortunately Mastodon isn't something that can be self-hosted on a small home setup by someone who doesn't have much experience in maintaining this kind of resource-hungry systems.
That doesn't mean however that more lightweight implementations (GoToSocial or even snac) couldn't be viable options of course.
@fabio @mayintoronto @aral WOW! 8Gb memory is fairly steep 100Gb disk is less worrying (though still clearly a bit steep). A year or so ago 64Gb memory was around $200 or a little less. A small Mini PC could be had for $300 with maybe 512Gb SSD.
I guess today things are likely completely out of reach and not practical due to insane costs for memory/storage/other hardware.
That said, maybe there are people with kit they already own that could manage to fit and instance in a mini PC? I have some Raspberry Pi 5s with 16Gb memory and some 512Gb NVMe drives (all of these are things I bought an few years ago for work I was doing for a client and they are now surplus to requirements). I wonder if that setup could cope?
The other hope is that a group of very smart people are re-writing Mastodon in Rust or carrying out some other optimisations (ObFlameWarAvoidance: I have nothing against Ruby, lovely language)
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