Dani 🍁
@atomicpoet I follow you so I thought of asking you a question. I’m a techie but not advanced but I can do tech stuff. I have a MBP with 8 gig RAM and I have a couple of external drives, can I start my own Instance for only me?
Dec 31, 2022 at 12:40amWeb
Show threadChris TrottierDec 31, 2022

@DaniEhm That should be more than enough horsepower for a self-hosted instance.

If you have the means to make this happen, why not?

Show threadDani 🍁Dec 31, 2022
@atomicpoet Exactly, why don’t we promote that. IMO that would give users autonomy.
Show threadAlisonW ♿Dec 31, 2022
@DaniEhm @atomicpoet An instance will very happily run on a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4Gig ram and a 480Gb sdd.
I know because I do.
Show threadDani 🍁Dec 31, 2022
@AlisonW @atomicpoet Is there a step by step tutorial I can follow. I don’t feel confident.
Show threadAlisonW ♿Jan 2, 2023
@DaniEhm @atomicpoet
I just followed the directions on the github pages and documentation, though I started with a new install of Ubuntu 22.04 on an empty machine.
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/prerequisites/
Preparing your machine - Mastodon documentation