Notes on using a single-person Mastodon server

https://lemmy.world/post/3086323

Notes on using a single-person Mastodon server - Lemmy.world

Julia Evans (@[email protected]) writes about her experience of running and using a single-person Mastodon server. The post also links to other people’s experiences in-between.

I did it for a while. Not exactly single person because my wife also wanted on. What I learned after a month or so is that it’s worth paying someone 5 a month to do it for me since there were always something small breaking ot s tiny bit of documentation not covered in the official instructions (I added to the official docs later).

I recommend everyone do it at least once if you have the background. It teaches you a lot about the process.

Would you recommend running another Fediverse microblogging software like Pleroma or Calckey? They can use/interact with all Mastodon features just fine. The issues you found…were they Mastodon-specific or Fediverse/ActivityPub in general?

I’ve never used them so I have no clue.

The issues were mastodon related not fediverse related. Activitypub worked great! And it was only on my personal server at the time a couple of years ago.