@hector Its something ive been meaning to experiment with and test, but its not a move I could lock myself into on a whim either.

But im open to considering it.

@hector

Yes, indeed. Mastodon is pre-historic, as the chosen name says. Move on with the times, there are better alternatives.

#GlitchSocial #Pleroma

@freemo

@design_RG Its worth a try, but very unlikely to make a huge difference (perhaps enough to cut the memory in half and keep the cost at 120, but thats if were lucky).

Almost all the load comes from the fact taht we have such a large federation footprint. Not just in terms of what servers federate with us, but int erms of the individual posts that get sent to us from throughout the fediverse (which allows us to have features like remote timelines). We process several hundred remote interactions per minute, its huge.

Does pleorma even allow for remote timelines? Does it have subscribe vs follow, does it even have the features we are investing in having I wonder?

@freemo https://i2p.rocks/blog/the-magical-world-of-pleroma-setting-up-your-instance.html

https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/

https://fediverse.network/pleroma?count=statuses

"Pleroma is built on a lot less technology than Mastodon. To run a Mastodon instance, you need Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, NodeJS and - if you want search - ElasticSearch. For Pleroma, you only need Elixir and PostgreSQL, while still getting all the features. This simplifies installation and makes maintenance somewhat easier."

"To report trouble, contact href+pleroma.site AT random.sh. Please allow 24 hours for turnaround. Hardware Information. This instance is currently hosted on a Intel Xeon E3-1240 v6 @ 3.70GHz with 64Gb of RAM, 386Gb SSD zfs mirror. The OS is FreeBSD and the instance lives in its own jail." ---nice server. ;)

@design_RG yes but we have many many features mastodon doesnt.. the big one for me is if pleorma supports remote timelines. Since our main objective is to make this instancea persons only instance remote timelines are key to that. Does ploerma have that?

@freemo @design_RG What do you mean by Remote Timeline? A specific TL of a specific instance?

@realcaseyrollins

Yes

@design_RG

@freemo @design_RG It's not included in the default #Mastodon FE but I wonder if you could transfer the FE you're using now to a #Pleroma instance...

Gleason would probably know more about this tho, he does a lot of development for #Pleroma now IIRC

@freemo
you can think about open the gate of donation. and then public every months' economic report.
That is most of the instance did for the long shot! ^_^

@design_RG

@Sphinx

I invested 10,000$ of my own money when the instance went active, I also had donations from others who donate into the open-source community (as we are primarily about opening up STEM and thus why we have a git).

So even at these high costs we have the funds to operate for some time. The money isnt an issue.

@design_RG

@iankenway we have switched servers a few times.. I dont know of any too much cheaper. I might move the whole thing over to a dockerized container but not sure that would save much costs, might even increase it.

I am hesitant to do a user fund raiser simply because I generally dont like begging for money, and I think our users might find it annoying.

@freemo I rather agree with you on the last point.

@qxinfinity Donations and ill cover it personally as needed.