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🇨🇦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 Another reason to use something that isn't Mastodon is that it seems to only be Mastodon that insists on transcoding and compressing your uploaded audio.
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Alex Hall @alexhall@mastodon.social
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@fastfinge Thanks. I'm still not sure if I'll ever do it, but I do kind of like the idea of spreading my icantsee.me joke domain to more of the world.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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@alexhall If you do, probably use Akoma or Go To Social. Iceshrimp.net is still in beta, and really only recommended for weird people who like fiddling with things.
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