Post by @p@hj.9fs.net
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.
@GossiTheDog
"mastodon is memory hungry"
guess you'll have to divorce John Mastodon and get engaged to Susie SNAC /hj
cc @p @ozzelot
"mastodon is memory hungry"
guess you'll have to divorce John Mastodon and get engaged to Susie SNAC /hj
cc @p @ozzelot
Snac, GoToSocial and similar projects are lightweight indeed, but at a heavy cost: no web interface (which needs to be provided separately), many APIs are intentionally unimplemented to reduce RAM costs, and (most important of all for site hosters) they're generally designed to be single-tenant, so for an open-registration site they're effectively useless. Akkoma, Misskey (and forks like Sharkey), Friendica and Hubzilla might be better suited for the low-spec scenario.
no web interfacestopped reading afterwards, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about
it might be the most misinformation about activitypub software I've ever seen packed into one post
just absolute horseshit as far as the eye can see
CC: @csolisr@hub.azkware.net
just absolute horseshit as far as the eye can see
CC: @csolisr@hub.azkware.net