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Self-hosted is possible - but you'll be tending to your server a lot. Media cache fills up quickly, upgrades can be complex, even a moderately popular post can
by edent 3y ago
Self-hosted is possible - but you'll be tending to your server a lot. Media cache fills up quickly, upgrades can be complex, even a moderately popular post can eat bandwidth.
It is certainly possible but it's like the early days of blogging. If you want to learn how to run a system, do it. If you want to spend your time interacting with people rather than machines, use a dedicated service like mas.to.
- verdverm 3y agoIf I have a popular post, do other servers use their media cache to reduce load on my instance?
- edent 3y agoThey should do, yes. But a popular post of mine was federated to over 2,500 servers - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/09/how-far-did-my-post-go-on-the-fediverse/ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/09/how-far-did-my-post-go-on-t... Once you have a large enough following, your instance will send messages to the servers of all your followers. If they repost something, it will go to all their followers - and so on.
- verdverm 3y agoThanks again! Do you have any recommendations for software for self-hosted? --- I'm somewhat leaning towards https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/ https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/ since it is written in Go and I could contribute back