#UnpopularOpinion Running your own #Mastodon instance really isn’t that big a thing. If you can work with WordPress — you’re set, IMHO. Book your instance as a service, so you don’t have to care about the complicated parts. I am a happy and proud customer of @mastohost. Do it for yourself and, say, max 5 friends or family members. I guess I or @aral should write a blog entry on how we work with our small instances to show you it’s really not magic.
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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 01:28:54 JST Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: -
Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 01:28:47 JST Aral Balkan @jwildeboer @mastohost It’s definitely easier when you let @jan run yours like I do. I’m still the admin but he keeps the disks spinning, as it were. Not that disks spin these days, but…
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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 02:12:31 JST Aral Balkan @nacho @jwildeboer @mastohost @pixelfed Ooh, it has that limit. That’s excellent. How it should be.
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Nacho (nacho@frankenwolke.com)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 02:12:39 JST Nacho @jwildeboer @mastohost @aral After just a couple of weeks in the fediverse I decided to move to my own instance and I’ve never regretted it ☺️ The more small instances we have, the better for the network. I love the @pixelfed approach of limiting by default the instances to 1000 users max.
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