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About running a mastodon instance Quote: "It is therefore with relief and regret that we announce the shutdown of Alphaville.club, this blog’s completely unoff
by xrayarx 4y ago
About running a mastodon instance
Quote:
"It is therefore with relief and regret that we announce the shutdown of Alphaville.club, this blog’s completely unofficial home on the Fediverse. Our reasons are listed below in full but, to summarise, Mastodon has proved more hassle than its worth."
- pmarreck 4y agoI mean, the relative cost really depends on how much you value having one up that you control, I suppose. I also think Pleroma or one of its forks (Akkoma, etc.) might be far less hassle to run while still being compatible with the same metaverse protocol, because Elixir (with erlang/OTP underneath) is far more resource-efficient than Ruby is (we're talking orders of magnitude more efficient in both CPU and memory efficiency, although content storage demands would likely remain necessary to keep a lasso on)
- pja 4y agoMastodon instances do seem to cache a /lot/ of content from peer servers in the interests of user-perceived latency.