Mike McCullochI'm really digging Mastodon, and think I'd like to create a personal, one user, instance to host my stuff on. In the space of about a week I've gone from curious to convert. Let's go!
Jasmine Mangalaseril@McCulloch Good to see you here!
@cardamomaddict and you.
And separately, I perchanced to spot a post of yours blasting out of the community firehose on Counter Socia. That site is also cool, but I think Mastodon has grown on me over the brief time I've been playing around with the two.
And separately, I perchanced to spot a post of yours blasting out of the community firehose on Counter Socia. That site is also cool, but I think Mastodon has grown on me over the brief time I've been playing around with the two.
@McCulloch I've been having real problems getting it to load, uploading pics and publishing there. I'm sure it's because of the influx of registrations and DDOS attacks.I'll be checking in there, but I'll likely spend more time here for the foreseeable.
Gabriel Bauman@McCulloch if you find a decent lightweight single-user impl, let me know. The official codebase is a bit on the heavy side for one person.
@gabrielbauman I will poke around and let you know. First thing I've done is merely asked my host if they'd allow it! I'm not currently on a VPS, and though it seems that's the recommended route, I'm I'm not sure whether I'd need to be.
@McCulloch Yeah rails apps and infra typically need a VPS. I looked into the underlying protocols and am considering writing a minimal one-person instance that doesn't require the full meal deal, could just use the mastodon apps for UI and skip the web experience.
@gabrielbauman I have yet to try the full web/browser version, but I've been told it's a much better experience. I'm not sure what implementation of a downscaled version versus a fully or near fully-featured environment would look like in terms of what kinds of efficiencies you could come up with. That said, I don't know much about this stuff. Whereas on Github you are writing the source code and the install guides, I am merely (dangerously?) downloading said source and following those guides.