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What happens when you have your own Mastodon instance (just for you) where over 21,000 people follow you and when you’re following over 4,300 people?
You end up paying ~€50/month for Mastodon hosting 
It also opens up interesting questions: what happens when a popular account joins your instance (hint: it will probably cost the instance maintainers quite a bit… I don’t envy the mastodon.nu folks right now).
This stuff is never free anywhere but the scale of Big Tech insulates you from it somewhat.
I actually think it’s good to be reminded that our ability to communicate comes with a cost – in terms of resources, environmental impact, etc., not just money.
But, equally, it also makes the case that a system optimised to host hundreds of thousands of people on a single instance is not also somehow magically optimised to host just one person.
The latter is the problem I’m exploring with #SmallWeb.
@aral Great food for thought regarding Fediverse economics. I think it makes for a compelling argument to investigate Mastodon alternatives.
I’m considering starting a Pleroma instance. It seems to be a lighter weight option, and for whatever feature parity it misses with Mastodon, might make up for that fact being compatible with Mastodon client apps. https://pleroma.social/
My Instance is a single core VPS with 2 GB ram and works without issues.
Not all apps work worked. Tusky is the one I'm currently using and works without issues.
@boynux Also curious which apps seem incompatible. Thanks for indulging me, I’m fascinated.
Tusky: Just works
Fedilab (paied): Just works
Mastodon app: It took a few tried to sign in
Tooot: Didnt work
Mastodon app: Search crashes the app, also sometimes hows "Not implemented" error, which indicates a missing API I guess
Fadilab: Following users works but the profile state doesn't change.
I guess so far the best one is still Tusky (Although I like tooot more)
@boynux I still need to try Toot. Thanks again for sharing your experience with Pleroma.
