Post AdeIfrfJrzGGjA8GOm by spacerog@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AdeIfrfJrzGGjA8GOm by spacerog@mastodon.social
       2024-01-08T04:40:26Z
       
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       Is anyone running thier own personal Mastodon server at home? (Not hosted) Is it worth it? To much trouble? What is your setup? Any pointers?
       
 (DIR) Post #AdeLQSMDyvehkrXrai by pete_wright@nlogic.systems
       2024-01-08T22:21:13.018229Z
       
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       @spacerog My instance is running Pleroma (https://pleroma.social/).  It is running on a smallish FreeBSD VM via my personal colo server.  I already run my own mail, web and other services here (and I'm a sys admin by training), so I would say its worth it personally.I looked at Mastodon first when I considered moving off of my prior fediverse server and I wasn't too interested in maintaining a Ruby webapp.  I have quite a bit of experience supporting Ruby and have nothing against it, but its just not my cuppa tea.  Pleroma is written in Elixer/Erlang which I also have quite a bit of experience with and IMHO its more fun to hack on, so that helped tip the balance.There are also some other lightweight fediserverse servers out there since I choose Pleroma, one of which I'd probably take a close look if I was doing this today is Honk (https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk).Having said all that - I *like* hacking on computers and really want to control my internet footprint as much as possible.  So this have been an overwhelming net positive.  The support overhead for Pleroma/PostgreSQL isn't too much, and if something breaks i'm the only one effected.