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I was wanting to host a Mastodon instance to use as a mail/chat/blog/publish/gallery service for myself, but based on an old (from 2017) official document(1) th

by nirui 5y ago

I was wanting to host a Mastodon instance to use as a mail/chat/blog/publish/gallery service for myself, but based on an old (from 2017) official document(1) that I found, running a Mastodon instance doesn't come cheap. 1: https://github.com/mastodon/documentation/blob/9efa9b69d8dc44bf45b7becadfecf67869d67f7c/Running-Mastodon/Resources-needed.md https://github.com/mastodon/documentation/blob/9efa9b69d8dc4... Their new document stopped providing such information now. I wonder how things improved during the years, does it demands less RAM now? Long story: my plan was to put the instance on one of my Raspberry Pi which got 2GB of RAM. But based on the old information, 2GB of hardware RAM is dangerously close to the limit, so I waited to see if things improves somehow (say Ruby suddenly become more memory efficient, I can dream too).

Lambdanaut 5y ago
Try Pleroma. It will easily run on a raspberry Pi and is growing very fast. It's also a lot easier and simpler to install and deploy than Mastodon; it has far fewer dependencies. Also more features, like chat, have been around for years. Mastodon is falling behind even there. I really recommend it. It was a much nicer experience for me.