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   Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 02:53:28 JST Pleroma-tan
   I understand the sentiment behind the entire donate to poast meme thing but it feels more like peer pressure than anything to donate to your instance admin now I don't like that
   
   This server is not very expensive to run it's only like 10 bucks a month, so we don't really need donations or anything. So instead if you have 5 bucks a month to dedicate to fedi, why not start your own instance? It's a liberating and fun experience to do so. If you don't like the Pleroma DB rot problems, there are always other smaller and more portable options such as snac2 [ https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2 ] they will likely last longer [in terms of instance lifespan at least] than most other softwares out there and they also have cool devs behind them.
   
   If you're concerned about where to find a vps to start an instance, there are a few providers out there which offer kvm slices for dirt cheap, I used to use a $5 vultr vps to run my first single user instance. It was pretty fun. Though I've heard vultr has shit the bed nowadays. So it's really your call. I've heard crunchbits is pretty good nowadays.
   
   I guess the only thing really stopping people from doing this is the amount of tech savvyness you need for something like that, but graf himself has funded projects like fediverse express, which handles the techy part for you apparently. Though software options are obviously limited with it.
   
   We'll always need more instances, so start yer own!!!
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     ruin (ruin@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 02:56:30 JST ruin

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     @kirby@lab.nyanide.com send me just 5 dollars a week and ill pretend my server bill 1k a month.

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     0 (https://gh0st.live/users/0)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 02:58:06 JST 0

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     With big instances like Poast there's quickly diminishing returns on hardware, much smaller instances just have a whole different world available to them.
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 02:59:12 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @0 that's true, though the peer pressure is what prompted me to make this post, not so much how poast is operated/the more technical aspects of running it
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     0 (https://gh0st.live/users/0)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 03:00:42 JST 0

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     Graf works with Pasture, who runs a business of managed alternatives.
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 03:03:27 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @ruin I don't doubt that it's pretty expensive to run poast it is a pretty big server after all, but I just don't think peer pressure without revealing alternative options is a good way of going about things
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 03:19:02 JST Pleroma-tan

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     Hell graf even runs btrfly, you could purchase a node from there if you really wanted to and get a fairly easy way into hosting your first instance without having to deal with any of the techy parts. Albeit it's a bit pricy at 15 dollars a month.
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     :blobcathug: (jain@blob.cat)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 05:59:39 JST :blobcathug:

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     @kirby i dont think there are *oma DB rot problems... i think there are people not knowing how to maintain bloat and indexes on DB's
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     Dudebro (dudebro@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 10:21:42 JST Dudebro

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     I am retard so no instance for myself
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     Tyler (tyler@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 10:21:43 JST Tyler

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     It's always been in the best interest of the fedi for people to make their own instances. I had my own for almost a year or so, until I was done with it and came back to NCD, although of course it could be restarted at any time.
     
     I hope these guys who all came to fedi recently, some of them make their own instances. We already had theblab.org form from the exodus of gab or whatever but they are a very very salty nasty bunch of people.
     
     Nothing is stopping anyone with a couple hours on their hands from starting their own instance.
     
     So for those on a server - it's alright to ask them to contribute financially to that server. It's not like the services end just at activitypub.
     
     Hope you're well.
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     We're Going to Win. (pirin04@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 10:37:41 JST We're Going to Win.

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     @kirby Is there a guide on how to run an instance securely?
     
     biggest worry is getting hacked by some antifa/tranny/fag activist group
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 10:41:06 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @pirin04 The typical practices you do to secure a server from the very beginning is typically just setting up a firewall and disallowing password based authentication on ssh
     
     both are not difficult to do
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 10:50:56 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @EvilSandmich @tyler It is
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     EvilSandmich (evilsandmich@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 10:50:57 JST EvilSandmich

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     @tyler @kirby Running the servers don’t seem hard, it’s the other stuff like image proxying, EXIF stripping and who knows what else that Graf is doing to optimize and privatize the experience. Does all that functionality come packed in to some builds? I dunno.
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 10:51:10 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @EvilSandmich @tyler Pleroma bundles it in by default it's just a yes or no question or a tick box.
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 10:54:00 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @EvilSandmich @tyler In general running Pleroma is not hard. All of the features poast uses is just part of standard pleroma except for a couple of mrfs that are very easy to install.
     
     People worry more about database maintenance than dealing with Pleroma configuration and such.
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     Tyler (tyler@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 11:09:28 JST Tyler

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     Soapbox is really easy, I agree
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     Tyler (tyler@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 11:09:59 JST Tyler

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     At scale, things change however
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 11:09:59 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @tyler @EvilSandmich at scale is when things become difficult yes but those are rare cases
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     Dudebro (dudebro@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 11:11:34 JST Dudebro

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     • Tyler
     Wash your benis
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