After 1,300 days (3 years 6 months give or take) running my own Mastodon server in my basement, the lesson is, you can run your own Mastodon server in your basement.

It basically just works. You learn how to do the maintenance and then it’s not so bad. No one has trouble finding you. Your posts can still go viral (but only if you’re cool, which I am not, but it has happened accidentally once as a PoC).

Federation works!

So yeah, continuing on in a boring fashion with my homegrown social media.

#mastodon #mastoadmin #SoloInstance #homelab #selfhosted

Vaia marron penyita del fedi 😱

Vaig instal·larme una distro diferent al pc per provar, abans de fer-ho vaig fer un backup de tots els Documents, de tot lo important, de tot menys d'una cosa... Les claus SSH 😬😬😬
Això vol dir que no tinc accés al servidor on esta allotjada aquesta instància del fedivers 😖
Haure de migrar el compte, es lo únic que se m'acut...

Per sort, a la resta de servidors que gestiono encara hi puc entrar desde un altre ordinador que feia servir abans, vaia cagada mes ben salvada!!

Opinions? Burles? Consells?

#screwedup #selfhosting #backup #soloinstance

The Solo Instance Problem

https://video.fedihost.co/w/gt2QJzod4UKHQ8Z9jb3USB

Are Your Mastodon Instance Feeds a Ghost Town?

https://video.fedihost.co/w/f3t7ZEiRtXGD8ajArCknh3

How To Create A GoToSocial Instance on Managed Hosting

https://video.fedihost.co/w/4wmHZT6YhrvoHeuBqTLYWd

Phew, the media storage usage for my Mastodon hosting finally went down. I was getting a bit worried I'd have to upgrade my little solo instance again 😅

I uh, might have gotten carried away adding some more relays this time around - they work great! but if you add too many it'll ramp that usage up 📈

I do wish there was a way to view what relay is doing the most damage, perhaps there is, I just don't know where to see it.

#SoloInstance #MastoHost #Mastodon #MastoAdmin

Giving https://relay.fedi.buzz/ by @astro a try, with a couple of hashtags and instances added.

Also https://combine.social/, by @anders

In an effort to alleviate the lonely feeling I'd sometime's have on a solo-instance, where my hashtag searches are less populated, and I'd nearly always be missing a bunch of replies.

I hope this combination introduces me to more awesome folk across the Fediverse, and saves me clicking through a bunch to "open on original page" 😅

#Fediverse #SoloInstance

Picked up a new domain and will be changing Mastodon instances soon, sorry in advance for any "Followed you" notifications that'll appear.

Nothing major, just going from .garden to .social - and will also run my project accounts from there, like design@ which will share a whole bunch of design stuff, blog@ which will share new posts, and more in time.

#MastoHost #SoloInstance #Instance

Trying to set up my own Mastodon instance using Cloudflare’s Wildebeest. Once you opt-in to about $10 per month of services needed to support it, their steps on GitHub are dead simple to follow through.

Ran into a snag. My action to setup my worker is failing, because it’s saying I need to agree to pricing for Cloudflare Durable Object, which I thought I did with Workers Unbound pay-as-you-go plan. Feels like I’m missing something simple. #cloudflare #wildebeest #soloinstance #githubactions