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- technews@radiation.party
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- technews@radiation.party
Julia Evans (@bork@jvns.ca) writes about her experience of running and using a single-person Mastodon server. The post also links to other people’s experiences in-between.
I did it for a while. Not exactly single person because my wife also wanted on. What I learned after a month or so is that it’s worth paying someone 5 a month to do it for me since there were always something small breaking over a tiny bit of documentation not covered in the official instructions (I added to the official docs later).
I recommend everyone do it at least once if you have the background. It teaches you a lot about the process.
just curious what things were breaking? I’ve been running my own instance for around 8 months now and apart from updating it every month or so I’ve had no issues.
Would you recommend running another Fediverse microblogging software like Pleroma or Calckey? They can use/interact with all Mastodon features just fine. The issues you found…were they Mastodon-specific or Fediverse/ActivityPub in general?
I’ve never used them so I have no clue.
The issues were mastodon related not fediverse related. Activitypub worked great! And it was only on my personal server at the time a couple of years ago.