Post by @Zelda@m.ai6yr.org
Running a Mastodon server is becoming increasingly problematic due to GenAI.
There’s multiple different things happening, including but not limited to:
- very aggressive scraping of user content and block evasion, with the resource costs that come with it
- AI agents aggressively trying to register accounts and evade restrictions
- rising cost of RAM - Mastodon is memory hungry, RAM is really expensive now
It’s odd to experience first hand, it’s like being consumed by.. a void.
The problem is a lot of people picked Mastodon, and Mastodon isn't easy on resources. Perhaps it is great if you've got money to burn and don't mind how easily web bots crawl all over the site, which was originally helpful for SEO improvement.
Akkoma is likely better optimized, but unfortunately, a lot of people avoid Akkoma because ironically all those hateful, racist people seem to use those platforms. It is annoying that they had the foresight and picked the better platform.
That said, if you had money to burn, but wanted better admin management and features with better power to defend against the onslaught of this AI and bot madness, Misskey would be the choice.
Since more people these days don't have money to burn, Akkoma may be something worth looking into for people who want an active community with many users and followers, along with some basic features.
Whatever the case, the Fediverse has a problem that needs to be addressed, now, not later.
It is, and it offers almost nothing in terms of features. GoToSocial is the Fediverse on life support.
You could likely run it on a Raspberry Pi or an old AMD Phenom processor from like 20 years ago. It is impressive just how small of a footprint that platform is, but it really is as bare-bones as you get.
I suppose if you just wanted the absolute bare minimum, that is the way to go.
That said, it was never designed for a large community. So I would be curious to see someone try to run one with it.
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@Zelda @GossiTheDog i will open one up to others once it has the key feature it needs...auto prune posts. i don't want to host people's memes and crap forever. maybe 6 months max.
what feature is lacking that you think is essential? for me, the mastodon auto-prune is the only thing i feel is lacking.