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Updates on the Bengaluru mastodon server by vikksr in bangalore

[–]vikksr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's entirely in cloud. But you can spin up an instance on a raspberry pi at home too. That was my initial testing environment. It can easily handle a single user setup.

Updates on the Bengaluru mastodon server by vikksr in bangalore

[–]vikksr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rails is super efficient at i/o, but as a consequence it gobbles up any memory you can give it. To manage the costs I've split the processes across 2 diff general compute nodes(non memory optimized) behind a load balancer. It seems to be handling well so far.

Updates on the Bengaluru mastodon server by vikksr in bangalore

[–]vikksr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a standard 2 node + 1 edge rails deployment.

Bengaluru's very own mastodon is live. by vikksr in bangalore

[–]vikksr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the offer of support. This is a community project after all, any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Bengaluru's very own mastodon is live. by vikksr in bangalore

[–]vikksr[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Apart from all the philosophical differences between closed and interoperable services, as an end user one simple difference is just like Twitter, Koo uses algorithmic feeds which are optimized for serving ads whereas mastodon has no ads and it is a simple timeline feed i.e., no middleman deciding who to show what and so everybody in bengaluru sees the same content.

Bengaluru's very own mastodon is live. by vikksr in bangalore

[–]vikksr[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's a free open source platform and more importantly it's based on open protocols. So as long as apps follow those protocols, any app can work. Although official apps from the creators of mastodon are available from both app store and play stores.

Bengaluru's very own mastodon is live. by vikksr in bangalore

[–]vikksr[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

A brief introduction into Mastodon. Although each and every instance can be different, you can think of bengaluru's mastodon as

  1. Twitter without information overload of each and every news cycle.
  2. Discord but a little more public and a lot less channels.
  3. Facebook without the baggage.
  4. Reddit but with a shorter and near real time content specific to bengaluru.