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Julia Evans (@[email protected]) writes about her experience of running and using a single-person Mastodon server. The post also links to other people’s experiences in-between.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I did it for a while. Not exactly single person because my wife also wanted on. What I learned after a month or so is that it's worth paying someone 5 a month to do it for me since there were always something small breaking over a tiny bit of documentation not covered in the official instructions (I added to the official docs later).

I recommend everyone do it at least once if you have the background. It teaches you a lot about the process.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would you recommend running another Fediverse microblogging software like Pleroma or Calckey? They can use/interact with all Mastodon features just fine. The issues you found…were they Mastodon-specific or Fediverse/ActivityPub in general?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've never used them so I have no clue.

The issues were mastodon related not fediverse related. Activitypub worked great! And it was only on my personal server at the time a couple of years ago.

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