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You can run Pleroma (with its database) on a raspberry pi with 1GB RAM. A single-user instance of Mastodon will require 8GB to run comfortably. I think the mai

You can run Pleroma (with its database) on a raspberry pi with 1GB RAM. A single-user instance of Mastodon will require 8GB to run comfortably. I think the main issue of Mastodon is that its search completely reliant on elasticsearch, while Pleroma tries to go by only with PostgreSQL FTS?

wrycoder 5y ago
What could possibly take up 8 GB? It’s just some text display.
- rglullis 5y ago
  It's a ruby application. Take all the background processes to build timelines, trending hashtags, etc and it adds up. Perhaps a single-user instance might do with less, but still...