I have this weird urge to try and set up an own instance myself. Just to see if that works.
With Akkoma - which I like a lot more than the Mastodon interface.
I found the Akkoma installer on Yunohost, and Hetzner has very nice rates.
Hmmm...
nostr:npub1cmgqvz7xr07euwkum3mjghjqcu4d3k2fcyf6g4uwwe5ggnd6fetq0wrzd2 Would you know what kind of mess I'd get myself into? (Answer only when you have time, this is NOT urgent at all.)
nostr:npub1spe0y44ygqfg0l829kqyqg46xkhrxt6mke8zc3c2v6e8zk509quqkvh9r5 I don't know Akkoma/Pleroma, but I've heard it's more resource friendly. But as with hosting anything, of course it's continuous work. If something is wrong, it can be stressful. But if you think you're up to it, go for it!
What I've learned is that it's best to know what you're hosting. This is why I constantly improve things on my instance, dig deep into code and make sensible modifications to my fork. PS, Hetzner is nice. I have 4 servers and 2 Volumes from them currently powering my Mastodon infrastructure.
Well, that's my 2cents. #MastoAdmin
nostr:npub1spe0y44ygqfg0l829kqyqg46xkhrxt6mke8zc3c2v6e8zk509quqkvh9r5 nostr:npub1cmgqvz7xr07euwkum3mjghjqcu4d3k2fcyf6g4uwwe5ggnd6fetq0wrzd2 You may wish to go beyond these installers. They make setting up things easy, but you don't really know what you're having. That's then fine for the time being, but not when things go south, need updates, etc.
In the end, when you're running an instance which is not only used by yourself, you're responsible for your user's data and fediverse access. Imagine if mstdn.social would be down tomorrow without notice. You wouldn't be too happy about it.
nostr:npub1spe0y44ygqfg0l829kqyqg46xkhrxt6mke8zc3c2v6e8zk509quqkvh9r5 nostr:npub1cmgqvz7xr07euwkum3mjghjqcu4d3k2fcyf6g4uwwe5ggnd6fetq0wrzd2 I’ve been hosting both mastodon and akkoma and I have to say it’s like night and day. I switched to akkoma (first Pleroma) roughly a year ago and it’s been really smooth sailing. I run it on a little router box and have no performance problems whatsoever, updates are super easy and it’s very stable overall. Mastodon on the other hand took up a huge amount of resources on a server that I used for other stuff as well. I think for mastodon you will need a dedicated server (or multiple ones) doing only that: serving mastodon.
