Post by @project1enigma@chaos.social
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 that said Mastodon is CPU and RAM hungry but its hunger per active user goes down fast with the number of users 🥰
Eg: Piaille.fr uses 80GB of RAM for about 10K active accounts
@benjamin @GossiTheDog Thinking about the memory use of a large Usenet server back then. I guess a very small fraction.
I remember inn being called a monster for using some more resources as baseline than cnews, but I ran a single user inn and had plenty resources to spare on my very old ARM3/26MHz/8MB machine...