adders
adders

I do not have time to experiment with setting up a Mastodon server. I do not have time to experiment with setting up a Mastodon server. I do not have time to experiment with setting up a Mastodon server.

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petebrown
petebrown

@adders You’re going to experiment with setting up a Mastodon server, right?

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bradenslen
bradenslen

@adders Last time I looked there were a couple of hosts that offer turn-key Mastodon hosting. They do all the upgrades and server stuff. You just do the Admin things like make up the rules, adjust the look and feel , attract users and keep law and order. All of which is quite a bit of work.

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rom
rom

@bradenslen @adders or you can get cloudron.io and spin up Mastodon

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mcg
mcg

@adders Mastodon proper is rather heavy. You might consider one of the lighter alternatives.

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brandontreb
brandontreb

@adders I wonder if there exists a single-user “thin” Mastadon server. If not, my mantra will be “I will not build a single-user thin mastadon server…”

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bradenslen
bradenslen

@brandontreb @adders There is Pleroma which Federates with Mastodon and ActivityPub and OStatus. It's Twitter-like but a lot lighter weight than Mastodon, which is resource intensive. You can run a single user Pleroma instance on Raspberry Pi.

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pimoore
pimoore

@bradenslen @brandontreb @adders I’m with masto.host and very pleased the short time I’ve been using it. I looked at Pleroma on a VPS, but it seems the state of good iOS apps is lacking from my reading online.

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rom
rom

@bradenslen @brandontreb @adders now that is a good suggestion. Will check it out and see if I can spin up an instance on my home RPi.

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brandontreb
brandontreb

@bradenslen awesome! I’ll check it. Thanks for the tip!

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@pimoore why is your own instance at what seems to be a minimum of $6 pcm a good thing?

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bradenslen
bradenslen

@pimoore @brandontreb @adders Frankly, I would go with masto.host too so I don't have to worry about the server side. Pimoore, good point about the availability of apps. I never thought of that. Makes sense that more apps are available for Mastodon.

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bradenslen
bradenslen

@rom Cool! Let us know how you get on. I was surprised when I read that it would run on RPi.

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odd
odd

@pimoore I’m happy with Metatext as an iOS client.

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stefp
stefp

@odd @pimoore I'm trying Metatext and the official iOS app. pinafore.social/ is a very nice web client.

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rom
rom

@bradenslen @pimoore made a great point about the lack of apps - thinking twice about the effort of setting up Pleroma now.

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