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1. Bruno BEAUFILS (beaufils@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 19:06:31 JST Bruno BEAUFILS

   Fed up with my original mastodon instance behaviour and want to really boost federation concept.

   Any advice where to migrate?

   Should I go for a self hosted one?

   Any advice on how to migrate smoothly?

   • Bruno BEAUFILS (beaufils@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 19:06:28 JST Bruno BEAUFILS

     in reply to

     • Yoan

     @myoan

     Aligning my thoughts & ideas on federation with my use of mastodon.

     Being on a *too big* instance breaks the spirit of the whole thing IMHO.

     I would appreciate to benefit from experience/expertise of people who had time to study and experiment more than me.

     For instance, before migrating to a single hosted instance or a much larger shared one, I would like to list pro and cons of each approach as well as technical requirements (RAM, disk, admin time, etc.).

   • Bruno BEAUFILS (beaufils@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 19:06:28 JST Bruno BEAUFILS

     in reply to

     • Aral Balkan
     • Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:
     • Yoan

     @myoan

     Maybe @aral or @mwl would have time to enlight us on self hosted instance.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 19:06:28 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:
     • Yoan

     @beaufils @myoan @mwl Ok, so off the top of my head:

     Mastodon isn’t really designed for single-person instances; everything about it overkill for this use case. Is it possible, yes? Will it be using up way more resources than necessary? Yes. Will you run into scaling issues on a single-person instance? If you have a lot of followers *and* you engage with them, yes, you could end up launching a denial-of-service attack on yourself each time you reply to an active thread…

   • Yoan (myoan@framapiaf.org)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 19:06:29 JST Yoan

     in reply to

     @beaufils (what is boost federation BTW? 🤔)

   • Yoan (myoan@framapiaf.org)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 19:06:31 JST Yoan

     in reply to

     @beaufils
     I had the idea to setup esr.social for french researchers #ESR with a Mangane instance (which is more similar to X in terms of UI). That would require a team leader setting up a small team to operate/moderate/advertise this instance, to give trust into it by avoiding a monoadmin user. There are multiple researchers and institutional accounts who could certainly join it and/or give a hand on these topics. But never had enough energy to set this up 🤓
     See https://framapiaf.org/@myoan/111878036600765525

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 19:08:14 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Jan
     • Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:
     • Yoan

     @beaufils @myoan @mwl … (See https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/)

     It will also take time and effort to run your own instance, even if you’re technically capable. This is why I have the way more capable @jan run my instance at https://toot.io. Very happy with it there (see https://toot.io/mastodon_hosting.html). I’m on the community plan, I believe.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 22:49:39 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Luis Villa

     @luis_in_brief Both. They’re intertwined, although it is possible to make less resource intensive/single-person ActivityPub servers, the multi-user aspect is part of the protocol.

   • Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 22:49:40 JST Luis Villa

     in reply to

     • Aral Balkan

     @aral a question I've never seen a concise answer to: is the problem you're describing a Mastodon problem or an ActivityPub problem?