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> a better single-user server would be nice There's GotoSocial[0], Takahē[1], epicyon[2], etc. [0] https://gotosocial.org https://gotosocial.org [1] https://

> a better single-user server would be nice There's GotoSocial[0], Takahē[1], epicyon[2], etc. [0] https://gotosocial.org https://gotosocial.org [1] https://jointakahe.org https://jointakahe.org [2] https://libreserver.org/epicyon/ https://libreserver.org/epicyon/

vidarh 2y ago
Thanks for the suggestions, but all of those seems like marginal improvements at best to me. If I'm going to have to read through a lot of installation instructions, I might as well keep Mastodon... When I was thinking of a "better single-user server", I was thinking more in terms of a single binary, or a single container - the Mastodon resource use is less of a problem (unless you run a big instance) than the complexity of it. I do appreciate the suggestions, though. If anything, looking at how others have handled Mastodon API support will be useful.
- zimpenfish 2y ago
  > I was thinking more in terms of a single binary, or a single container GotoSocial is a single binary.
  - vidarh 2y ago
    That got lost to me in the long installation instructions, and the presence of a docker-compose file I didn't look at because its mere presence suggested multiple containers, but I see now it only includes one... To me, the length of those installation instructions is themselves an indication this is still not what I'm after.
    - zimpenfish 2y ago
      Yeah, I can see that they've gone for the "To install GotoSocial, first you must create the universe..." kind of approach to their instructions. Which is a shame because it's just "Download a release, unpack, edit the config, off you go."[0] They could do with a pithy Quickstart page for people who already have domains, servers, etc. [0] My installation is from source and I'd never really seen their installation instructions as they are now.
xigoi 2y ago
Also Snac2: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2 https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
- vidarh 2y ago
  There was a time I'd love something like this in C, but those days are long gone...

vidarh 2y ago

Thanks for the suggestions, but all of those seems like marginal improvements at best to me. If I'm going to have to read through a lot of installation instructions, I might as well keep Mastodon... When I was thinking of a "better single-user server", I was thinking more in terms of a single binary, or a single container - the Mastodon resource use is less of a problem (unless you run a big instance) than the complexity of it. I do appreciate the suggestions, though. If anything, looking at how others have handled Mastodon API support will be useful.

zimpenfish 2y ago
> I was thinking more in terms of a single binary, or a single container GotoSocial is a single binary.
- vidarh 2y ago
  That got lost to me in the long installation instructions, and the presence of a docker-compose file I didn't look at because its mere presence suggested multiple containers, but I see now it only includes one... To me, the length of those installation instructions is themselves an indication this is still not what I'm after.
  - zimpenfish 2y ago
    Yeah, I can see that they've gone for the "To install GotoSocial, first you must create the universe..." kind of approach to their instructions. Which is a shame because it's just "Download a release, unpack, edit the config, off you go."[0] They could do with a pithy Quickstart page for people who already have domains, servers, etc. [0] My installation is from source and I'd never really seen their installation instructions as they are now.

xigoi 2y ago

Also Snac2: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2 https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

vidarh 2y ago
There was a time I'd love something like this in C, but those days are long gone...