Owl EyesI'm having a go at installing #Mastodon, and #gotosocial, comparing them (on 2 different VPS', 2 different domains). The elegance of gotosocial, for installation, is really impressive. 👍
Mastodon has way too many "moving parts" to my liking: it has node.js 🙄 , puma, sidekiq, and redis processes all vying for CPU usage. Despite this little whirlwind of server processes, it *also* wants the webserver, say #nginx to interface with local storage (for its "public" folder), or an S3-style bucket. It has too many tangled dependencies for me to consider it "low-maintenance". It's a "high-maintenance" service - not to be taken lightly. Like I can't just "set it up and forget it".
This is all really unconducive to doing a reverse proxy, where a VPS in the cloud acts as a "simple" reverse proxy, then one runs Mastodon in a lightweight container in one's LAN, like in Incus (and one can still easily use free Let's Encrypt SSL certs).
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