Anil Dashrelevant to my post last night that I'm going back and fixing up my 23 years of blog archives, and restoring broken links, it is *astounding* how much better a job the personal web does at keeping links alive and content online. Most personal blogs I linked to are either still around or redirect to a place where the content is easy to find. The vast majority of corporate content (including news) has been erased, with only imperfect Internet Archive copies available.
Kevin Marks@anildash we've been compiling a list at https://indieweb.org/site-deaths for a while. Which does make me wonder why you moved your mastodon presence into a corporate silo rather than your own site.
Christina Warren@KevinMarks @anildash I’d be curious about this too, tho I think the decentralized nature makes it easy to migrate. I’ve considered my own instance but I don’t know if I have it in me to do the maintainance tbh.
@film_girl @anildash maintaining your own Mastodon instance does seem to be a lot of wrangling work, from what I've heard from others, yes eg https://lagomor.ph/2022/11/mastodon-is-too-heavy-for-its-own-good/
Mastodon Is Too Heavy for Its Own Good
Warning: This Article Is Poorly Written With the ongoing collapse of Twitter, there has been a lot of talk about the Fediverse, and primarily Mastodon, which in spite of it probably not wanting to be, is the flagship in the ActivityPub fleet. I want to preface this by saying that I think Mastodon is really great software from the user side. It’s a very powerful tool and deserves all the credit it gets for it’s UI, it’s filtering features, and it’s very in-depth profile settings.
Bill Plein🌶@KevinMarks @film_girl @anildash
I’m iterating (off and on, in bursts as I find time and desire) on an improved Docker-Compose.
The article claims you need S3 and you definitely don’t. Especially for a single user instance unless you are very popular.
https://github.com/bplein/mastodon-docker-compose/tree/main
I think the heavy lift here is docker experience. If you have it, this is easy. If you don’t, instead of learning all the mastodon bits up front, learn Docker and Docker Compose (which are useful elsewhere)
@KevinMarks @film_girl @anildash
But I agree with the premise that someone with little experience running apps, that consist of multiple services, well biting off Mastodon is a learning curve.
But it all is. Getting stuff running is the easy part. Doing so it lives on “forever” is another thing entirely. Day 2 and beyond.
@bplein @KevinMarks @anildash right. I’ve managed many a web server in my day, some better than others. I don’t really relish having to have a reminder to run updates and check security every month or whatever. Sometimes that’s fun. But sometimes it feels too much like my actual job.
@bplein @film_girl @KevinMarks yeah, I mean… I spend my day worrying about running tens of millions of apps, I don’t want to go home and have one more to manage.