Fed up with my original mastodon instance behaviour and want to really boost federation concept.

Any advice where to migrate?

Should I go for a self hosted one?

Any advice on how to migrate smoothly?

@beaufils
I had the idea to setup esr.social for french researchers #ESR with a Mangane instance (which is more similar to X in terms of UI). That would require a team leader setting up a small team to operate/moderate/advertise this instance, to give trust into it by avoiding a monoadmin user. There are multiple researchers and institutional accounts who could certainly join it and/or give a hand on these topics. But never had enough energy to set this up 🤓
See https://framapiaf.org/@myoan/111878036600765525
Yoan (@[email protected])

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Framapiaf
@beaufils (what is boost federation BTW? 🤔)

@myoan

Aligning my thoughts & ideas on federation with my use of mastodon.

Being on a *too big* instance breaks the spirit of the whole thing IMHO.

I would appreciate to benefit from experience/expertise of people who had time to study and experiment more than me.

For instance, before migrating to a single hosted instance or a much larger shared one, I would like to list pro and cons of each approach as well as technical requirements (RAM, disk, admin time, etc.).

@myoan

Maybe @aral or @mwl would have time to enlight us on self hosted instance.

@beaufils depending on your usage you could also set up your own pleroma instance. Took me one evening to set up mine. I'm using a cheap vps to run it, with some other services on it too.
4vcpu cores (didn't find what cpu they are using) and 6gb ram