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I work on a tool that makes provisioning cloud infrastructure and deploying code to the cloud easy, based on application templates.
I'm not at all an expert in Mastodon internals but it seems like we could probably create a template to stand up Mastodon servers and then provision/deploy with the Azure Developer CLI (via azd up)
Anyone game?
@savannah I've spent a lot of time in a $COMPANY app that works a lot like mastodon, so I'd be happy to help. The docker-compose is ok if you want to run your own personal instance, but what the community seems to be missing (afaict) is an easy way to stand up a scalable installation. There's a fair amount of stuff to do to get it to run cloud native, but I'd be willing to discuss further and submit PRs on a repo. Someone was working on a helm repo, but k8s shouldn't be required imho.
Important Mastodon Newbie Info 🐘:
There are no ads here,
and this is not a corporation.
This is a Federation 
The person(s) taking care of everything needed for you to have an account here is likely doing it solely out of generosity for the community. This even costs THEM money. Not to mention the enormous cost in time!
Support your instance’s administration(s) every way you can. This is important 💚
HOW TO ❓
You can find who does this for you by looking up the About page for your server/instance.
You usually can find this page by adding “/about” after your instance’s name in a browser. Your instance name is what is after your handle name, after the second “@“ (for example, mine is: infosec.exchange/about).
👉 Help financially if you can: Many administrator(s) will have a page setup for donations. If not, you can ask them 
👉 Offer your time to help if you can: Ask if they need support with moderation and such 💪
👉 Do not use Report as a joke. Only Report when necessary 😌
👉 BE KIND! Cheers them up! Say thanks! They are doing this for you 💚
To all mastodon admins:
Hi! I’m Evan Phoenix, the primary author of puma, the ruby webserver that powers mastodon!
Please reply or DM me if you need tuning help! I’ve got no officiation with the mastodon, just want to see you succeed!
(Quick Tip: set WEB_CONCURRENCY to core count * 1.5 and then tune MAX_THREADS. High thread values will see diminishing returns!)
Made an iOS Shortcut to let you follow someone from a different Mastodon instance without the copy/paste hoop-jumping.
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e109c8e6b8c0420c902134049b13c064
Once added to your Shortcuts app, you can share a Profile (or webpage or text that contains a profile link or username) to this Shortcut to be taken to the Follow confirmation page without ever copying or pasting anything.
Let me know if you find it helpful or run into any issues.
Savannah Ostrowski
Signal
Em 
Evan Phoenix
Justin Velgos
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽