Note by @fastfinge

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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Interesting stats from my single person instance. Right now it knows 194730 fediverse users, on 8799 instances. It stores 3652744 posts, and gets about 71000 new posts every day. The PostgreSQL database is about 10 gigs, but the compressed database dump I take as a backup is only 851 megs. It needs about 4 gigs of memory to be happy. Since starting this instance a few months ago, I've made 1255 posts.

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Alex Hall @alexhall@mastodon.social

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@fastfinge I've sometimes wondered about hosting one. Is there any practical reason to do so? I completely get if it's just a fun IT thing to do. I know I could change small things like the character limit and whom I federate with, but are there any other, larger benefits?

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

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@alexhall So for me, I already had the interfree.ca domain, and I wanted my username on the fediverse to be the same as my email. Plus, I wanted to try out the iceshrimp.net server because it has some features I like. I also do enjoy my 8192 character limit, and knowing who I federate with and who I don't. It's also nice to know that if another server unfederates with me, it's directly because of something I did, not because they don't like my admin or whatever.

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