This is about the Mastodon instance of the University of Twente, Holland. Fetched from : https://mastodon.utwente.nl/@fabi/106414293540395499
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2021
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Yes, more instances is better (What happened with the Mastodon flagship is kind of bad, letting it grow into a mega instance without proper moderation), and in this case for a University it makes sense to be able to accept or reject new users and grow a community. It is possible to run an instance with a Raspberry Pi and Yunohost for example. Pleroma is pretty light weight, but there are more light weight options. Mastodon is more heavy.
Pleroma is cool as well, but since mastodon allows to move your profile to a different server while taking followers with you I feel like this is a killer feature. I can confidently tell new users that it doesn't matter which instance they join at first, they can always move later. Like this the feeling of "missing out" is relieved a bit.
Right, agree, moderation seems to consume a lot of time to get it right.
Excellent, maybe I'll try to run a bit of the fediverse on a raspberry, thanks for the data @ajz
You're welcome, have fun with self hosting !
Curious to know, what's more lightweight than Pleroma for microblogging (I think that's what it's called?).
There is Honk https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk and https://epicyon.net/ for the latter there is a Yunohost app. https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/epicyon_ynh
Cool, thanks! I always thought that for microblogging Pleroma was as light as it gets. It's good to know that there are options that are even lighter.
For really small instances probably: https://epicyon.net/