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!
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.