I am working on spinning up a #GoToSocial (https://gotosocial.org/) instance that I am calling "Wisconsin Rocks" (I knew that my next instance had to be Wisconsin-themed). It works interchangably with #Mastodon, #Pixelfed, #Kbin, etc.
I have room for 10 users at the moment. Want to try it out? Give me a holler.
I find it ironic that all those people who'd make jokes about Mastodon, and how heavy it is compared to fedi alternatives, would go on to use one of them, only to run into performance issues when they reached a certain scale.
Yeah Mastodon uses a lot more ram than pleroma, but that's because of redis.
Mastodon never stored raw AP objects, and never subjected admins to hours long migrations due to bad schema planning.
I'd like to see another project scale like Mastodon or Pixelfed does 😉
Mastodon performs well for large (and huge) communities. But it performs terrible for single person setups. E.g. #gotosocial is the reverse. It performs very well for a tiny community, but far worse for a (ten) thousand user instance.
I'm still convinced the fediverse should push for many small instances.
I still prefer Mastodon to every other supposed twitter alternative. I do find the Bluesky interface easy to use since it is like old Twitter but Mastodon is just better in every other way. Community and no limits and functionality.
So, I estimate that running my server from my home connection would cost me about 30€ per month in power consumption, my existing server is 31,33€ per month. Hm, not sure if it's worth the lower upload-bandwidth.
@piolaq It's nothing special. It's a bare metal machine (because I hate VMs) with 8 cores, 16 GB RAM and 4 TB storage. It's running 5 websites of me and my friends and a bunch of services I use daily:
GoToSocial provides a lightweight, customizable, and safety-focused entryway into the #fediverse, you can keep in touch with your friends, post, read, and share images and articles.
Consider #GoToSocial instead of Pixelfed if you'd like a safety-focused alternative with text-only post support that is maintained by a stellar developer community!
I've spun up my own #GoToSocial instance as a way to teach myself #docker and server administration, but also to finally have a forever home in the federated universe.
Won't 'toot' much, but when I do, I'm probably rambling on about something related to #cars, #technology, #music, or just life in general.
@evan i personally think it should be down to the community to provide such things. Mastodon isn’t that difficult to deploy if you know your way around servers, there are managed services available already for those without the technical knowledge or want to manage such things and then projects like #GoToSocial have made deploying AcitivityPub servers very nearly plug and play easy.
Mastodon is hard to self-host, which leads to too few instances with open registrations. Gargron's solution is to redirect everyone on his one million users server.
At the moment the 419 instances having signed the #FediPact have 387,191 users, i.e. 4% of the total number of users and 27% of the number of monthly active users (MAU) (I give both numbers because we can expect these users to be more committed to the fediverse, so more active, than lingering mastodon.social accounts)
Is there an easy-to-install, low maintenance (preferably with docker) lightweight service that I could install on my VPS to participate in #lemmy/#kbin communities? Something like what #GoToSocial+Semaphore do for Mastodon.
In order for #decentralization to work, the server install process for services is going to HAVE to improve. If I'm interested in running a federated instance of a service, and the first thing I see is a 35-step tutorial about how to configure nginx or arcane PHP requirements, I'm going to bail.
I think about Nextcloud, and how I installed a snap for it, and it's updated through 8 major upgrades of the service without me ever doing anything to admin it. That's where we need to get to.
Having second thoughts about my self-hosted #Mastodon instance, it’s just too much of a resource hog for a single user / small instance on a 4 core / 4G vServer if you want to run other stuff (#writefreely is live, #pixelfed to be installed!) as well. On the other hand it is very nice that the software is stable, reliable and well designed. So either I need to move to a bigger server or decommission my self-hosted profile and look into other options for micro / macro blogging self-hosting again. I did like #gotosocial but the current version doesn’t install on my #yunohost properly. Tried #Akkoma and #Pleroma - weren’t my thing, can’t get over the design. I do like #Friendica and its possibilities but it is a bit clunky at times and I have some doubts if protocols other than the quasi standard #ActivityPub have much of a main stream future which kinda could make the additional Friendica features a little islandish. Same applies to #Hubzilla which I only start testing. Leaves #Misskey and #Calckey which could be good options but not sure about the reliability and gameplan there, I don’t want to tinker every night on my server so #Calckey probably need to become a little more stable first, #Misskey seems to have no current version on YunoHost, so need to explore other install options… Any thoughts very welcome! @fediversenews@fediversede
Question. If a media organisation wants to host a single-user (or perhaps a handful of own users, one per topic) instance mainly to publish to the #Fediverse (mostly #Mastodon and #Pixelfed in practice), what is then the best server software?
A full Mastodon server might be a bit overkill, is #Akkoma or #Pleroma a lighter solution for this particular use case?
The server would have to make posts that are both fully Mastodon and Pixelfed compatible (so include CW’s, image alt texts etc.)
Crazy idea that I can't believe I'm considering: Building a #gemini front end -- well, not a front end so much as the "static" views of profiles and public posts - for @gotosocial
(I really need to finish some existing side projects before starting new ones.)
(Admittedly, a full gemini-based #GoToSocial front-end that enables posting and stuff would be cool too. Though it looks like Bubble may be a better fit for that sort of thing: gemini://geminispace.org/u/skyjake/1 )
Is the ballooning server storage requirements for Mastodon (e.g. for small single-user or family instances) a side-effect of being a good ActivityPub client itself, or just a Mastodon thing?
E.g. if I wanted a just-as-federated server but running, say, GoToSocial instead, would I need just as much disk space?
Oh my holy server. There are so many cool Fediverse projects right know! I can't choose to which I want to commit. Mastodon is clearly getting too big and influential to stay there in the long term. However it's also the most stable and mature project. Oh, and yeah, sadly I can't pursue all of the interesting stuff. It's getting too complicated for me to manage... Let's see what happens in the next few months. #fediverse#mastodon#calckey#bonfire#goToSocial