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   Renaud Chaput (renchap@oisaur.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 07:21:31 JST Renaud Chaput

   One year ago, I decided to leave Twitter and start my own Mastodon instance for myself and a few friends.

   I quickly started supporting the project on Patreon and joined the Discord, to see if I could help some people with scaling up their instances, as I was familiar with the stack and I know the drill.

   A few weeks later, I was reworking the whole hosting for the project, then mastodon.online, and ultimately mastodon.social…

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     Renaud Chaput (renchap@oisaur.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 07:27:11 JST Renaud Chaput

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     One year after installing my instance, I am now the technical lead for the project, acting as the CTO of Mastodon gGmbH, recruited a full time devops person, and spending (too much?) time trying to fix everything I can to ensure the project continues to move forward and improve day after day.

     What a ride! But it is a very enjoyable one, I am feeling so useful and I am meeting wonderful people 🥰

     Let's go for the second year, it can’t get busier, isn’t it? 😃