Lohan GunaweeraJul 25, 2023

Dear all, I am making an attempt at migrating to @[email protected] and using it as my primary microblogging account. Please follow me there.

If all goes well, I will archive this account at mastodon.social.

Being on your own server is the most comforting thing these days. What can go wrong? :)

Show threadLohan GunaweeraJul 30, 2023
@lohang I am happy to report that the migration to Pleroma has been a success :) The new server is running really well. Many thanks to those who make #yunohost, making #selfhosting easy for the rest of the world.

#Pleroma seems to be incredibly resource efficient! It is still running on a 16 GB VPS with just 1GB of RAM.

The contact import did not go as well as I expected. Only a 1/3 of my follows were imported. I will be adding the rest of you manually over the next few days.

Even though I am more comfortable with Mastodon's four column layout, I can certainly get used to the default Pleroma frontend. I don't want to install anything that was not included in the default installation yet. Later I will give Bloat (a javascript-free front-end) a try. Most importantly, I can continue to post from the familiar mobile app Fedilab.
Show threadzbleskJul 30, 2023

@[email protected] @lohang would you be willing to share some stats after you've been using it for a while?
I'm most interested in memory footprint.

I run plenty of services on a single server, because it's just me using most of them. But I can't predict how much of a resource strain the federation causes.

Show threadLohan GunaweeraJul 30, 2023
@zblesk I'll be happy to share. At the moment all I have is Pleroma and weechat on this server. I don't think I'll be deploying anything else here except a small static website.
Show threadzblesk

@lohang thanks!
I'll check out what weechat is.

Do you run them in docker?

Jul 30, 2023 at 9:39amTusky
Show threadLohan GunaweeraJul 30, 2023
@zblesk weechat is just a small IRC client that I run remotely so I can stay connected to IRC uninterrupted. No, I don't use docker here. Pleroma was deployed on yunohost. I find it easier to manage things that way (see https://yunohost.org).

An old school sysadmin could have done it on vanilla Debian. I am just a normal user who wants to selfhost things :)
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