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< p > A recent post from Alan Pope, < a href = "https://popey.com/blog/2021/02/mastodon-instances-everywhere/" > Mastodon Instances, Everywhere< / a > , reminded me that I also used to run a Mastodon instance back when it was all still new and shiny.< / p >
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< p > My instance ran for awhile and had a few users and I actually enjoyed being on the network. It was much more civil and discussions seemed friendlier than Twitter. Eventually, I shut my instance down as it took more and more < em > sysadmin time< / em > , was quite resource hungry and their updates did not always go smoothly.< / p >
< p > Recently, I decided to jump back into the Fediverse and see how many people I could follow there instead of on Twitter. Not surprisingly, most of those in the Linux community are the easiest to find Mastodon accounts for.< / p >
< p > To get on the Fediverse, I chose to spin up an instance of < a href = "https://pleroma.social/" > Pleroma< / a > and so far I’ m liking this. It uses < em > a lot< / em > less resources than Mastodon itself, seems easier to keep up-to-date and even has a clone of the Mastodon interface (see < a href = "https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/mastofe" > MastoFE< / a > ).< / p >
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< p > How long will I run it this time? Who knows, but I am enjoying it again and without the stress of running a “ real” Mastodon instance.< / p >
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