Post by @plzupgrademe@fedi.txw.ca
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, RAM is really expensive now
AFAIK the Elixir back-end of Pleroma/ Akkoma can be uses with the Mastodon web client. Bonfire's Elixir back-end, forked from a Pleroma fork, could be another option.
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@strypey @GossiTheDog @sheogorath yes yes yes, I run Akkoma with a Storj backend and it’s a delight a delight. BEAM is amazing stuff, it also powers ejabberd for XMPP!
On Akkoma, how do you look up content on a different instance by URL?
On Mastodon you paste the URL into the search box, but I tried this on a couple of Akkoma sites and it didn't seem to work.