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   meneer@social.iamforum.space's status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 07:51:46 JST meneer

   Self hosting issues... Mastodon is filling my one user 40GB VPS, storage shortage making it unreachable 😱
   This sharkey instance is much bigger. Curious to see the impact on storage.

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     OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 07:51:38 JST OCTADE

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     I had similar storage space issues with multiple activitypub servers. So I nuked them and I installed SNAC2.
     
     Now my total disk space is 1.7 GB, which is far less than any of the other servers I tried.
     
     SNAC2 fediverse server software: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
     
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     OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 16:07:38 JST OCTADE

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     Yeah, I think Mastodon is overkill for low count user bases. Pleroma is better, Friendica is even better yet, and snac is just right for me. Gotosocial and Tahake are probably decent, too, although I have not tested them since I like what I have and if it ain't broke I don't want to fix it.
     
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     meneer@social.iamforum.space's status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 16:07:39 JST meneer

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     • OCTADE

     @octade@soc.octade.net I already noticed a slowly growing nymber of snac servers connecting. I will investigate. Fro a self-hosting environment mastodon might be too big.

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     OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 16:45:20 JST OCTADE

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     When you settle out, maybe you could post some notes of your experiences in your timeline. That would save me from trying everything else ...
     
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     meneer@social.iamforum.space's status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 16:45:22 JST meneer

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     • OCTADE

     @octade@soc.octade.net now running sharkey, feels comfy on this server. snac looks interesting, but also epicyon makes sense, including blog-like functions. I will investigate some more and then make the move.

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     OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 02:54:53 JST OCTADE

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     which linux distro runs on your server?
     
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     meneer@social.iamforum.space's status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 02:54:55 JST meneer

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     @octade@soc.octade.net Epicyon refused to federate.
     Snac may be nice, but I can't get it to run. Not expert enough to fix the issues.

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     meneer@social.iamforum.space's status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 02:54:57 JST meneer

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     • OCTADE

     @octade@soc.octade.net running a #yunohost app server, so removing mastodon and installing epicyon is most easy. But I'm not sure if epicyon supports importing following lists. So I might end up installing snac manually...

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     OCTADE (octade@soc.octade.net)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 03:20:13 JST OCTADE

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     snac was recently added to the Debian repos. Did you try installing it with apt?
     
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     meneer@social.iamforum.space's status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 03:20:15 JST meneer

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     • OCTADE

     @octade@soc.octade.net moving between Debian 12 and Ubuntu 24.04. I'm not used to installing bsd, never understood the partitioning part :-)