Eugen Rochko12.9K new users on mastodon.social this week. Don’t know off-hand how the numbers for the fediverse at large look
It’s now up to 18.8K new users this week. For reference, growth was about 1K per week for a long time.
Hope to see more Mastodon servers pop up to share the load!
If you want your server to be advertised on joinmastodon.org, check out joinmastodon.org/covenant for conditions and instructions (but please mind I won’t be able to process submissions until at least tomorrow when I get home)
Avinash Sonawane@Gargron I would like to host the Mastodon instance for my friends and family. Is there a Mastodon AWS (EC2, S3 etc.) guide you can recommend? e.g. blog post, notes etc.
Also, will AWS free tier be enough at the beginning (1-2 users)?
Thanks!
@Gargron A major issue amounting to the less new instances is the somewhat cumbersome Mastodon setup for a new instance.
It would really help if we could provide Mastodon setup guides for common cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure etc.
mewmew @rootkea @Gargron If you want a small and cheap instance I recommend Pleroma (pleroma.social), it's compatible with Mastodon but much easier to set up
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