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Resource-efficient fork of Mastodon—or go for other Fediverse packages instead? (social.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by stefanlaser@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosting@slrpnk.net

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I'm looking for a customizable, resource-efficient Mastodon fork. Bonfire? Rebased? Or go non-Ruby, like Pleroma (nah), Misskey Calckey, indeed, Lemmy (hui)? Any experiences?

This is part of an endeavour to host w/ a RaspberryPi & solar power. It will be a device to mess around, test, and share experiences.

Potential features:

tweaking network traffic in various ways
media options: off, auto compression, auto delete
monitoring server metrics, energy flow, sharing data through a bot
auto-off when battery low, sad emoji

Re-posting this from Mastodon w/ minor edits, because Fediverse and potential cross-interaction. I probably should have posted here first and then shared the link on Mastodon, but it's a Mastodon question, so I did it the other way around. Still not sure what's the best way to do this though.

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[–] SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never used mastodon because my servers would never handle it. I started with Friendica, moved to pleroma, and ended up ultimately with rebased (and obviously lemmy and lotide and peertube)

I find it really funny seeing people on mastodon whining about certain features being unavailable when they're available to many projects on the fediverse.

[–] stefanlaser@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Excellent, thanks for sharing your journey. Some servers could "never handle it" because of all the caching and redundancies?

Slowly I am becoming aware of the limitations of Mastodon, which are also closely related to the managament, it seems, shy of listening to the people. Rebased sounds like my favourite so far, although GoToSocial, as mentioned by @slowwcore@lemmy.fmhy.ml (and folks on Masto) is also worth exploring.

[–] SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net 2 points 1 year ago

My first server had an outdated CPU, very little memory and a spinning hard drive, so that turned out to be a huge limitation for a lot of software. I needed stuff that hardly used any memory and also didn't have a lot of extra services running at once. When I started adding some services, lots of stuff started grinding to a halt.

On linux, the glances application is really useful. Besides just showing you what programs are using memory and CPU time, it also shows IOWait times and throughput so if you're being bottlenecked by something or other it's a lot easier to see.

There's also a service called tuned that does some automatic tuning, and if you're using postgres databases, there's another tool called pg_repack that'll pack your database while running. It maxes out your CPU and uses a lot of disk while running, but if you don't do something routinely then your postgresql database slowly gets sloppier and it'll start using more and more resources until your server appears to be useless.