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Resource-efficient fork of Mastodon—or go for other Fediverse packages instead? (social.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking for a customizable, resource-efficient Mastodon fork. Bonfire? Rebased? Or go non-Ruby, like Pleroma (nah), Misskey Calckey, indeed, Lemmy (hui)? Any experiences?

This is part of an endeavour to host w/ a RaspberryPi & solar power. It will be a device to mess around, test, and share experiences.

Potential features:

tweaking network traffic in various ways
media options: off, auto compression, auto delete
monitoring server metrics, energy flow, sharing data through a bot
auto-off when battery low, sad emoji

Re-posting this from Mastodon w/ minor edits, because Fediverse and potential cross-interaction. I probably should have posted here first and then shared the link on Mastodon, but it's a Mastodon question, so I did it the other way around. Still not sure what's the best way to do this though.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you'd have a much better time with something lighter than Mastodon if it's running on a limited system. If you are really looking to minimise requirements, Pleroma and its derivatives are unfortunately about the best for it afaik, though I certainly have plenty of misgivings. I'm personally partial to GoToSocial, and it'd be my go-to recommendation for any self-host atm unless they had specific requirements that made it unsuitable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, this is the way to go. Since my project is for research and testing purposes, however, I might check out multiple setups and compare results. A follow-up post sounds about right.

I need a bit of spare time to start working on that soon-ish.