Post by @u0421793@toot.pikopublish.ing
I like Mastodon, I really do. But it has so, so many dependencies, and updating it on illumos or OpenBSD is getting really difficult, release after release.
Some dependencies are primarily distributed as binaries, or only build on Linux and macOS. It's not Mastodon's fault, but it depends on them.
That’s why, in my opinion, solutions like snac, GoToSocial, or littleFedi have a reason to exist: all of this is much, much easier...
#Fediverse #snac #GoToSocial #littleFedi #OwnYourData #Mastodon
I started with pleroma and didn't like the way the project was poorly managed.
Bugs that lasted years considered less important than stupid new features.
Mastodon on a proxmox debian vm is lighter than I expected.
The biggest point anyway , is the trust on the development team.
@luca if the load is low, it's not that heavy. I have (had), a single user instance for some time, and it wasn't that loaded. And for large(r) communities, it's quite good, well structured and scalable.
I like it, really. And it's not a Mastodon problem, but a similar problem exists for all the modern stacks that depend on a lot of external dependencies.
For myself I'm fine with mastodon, though the stack is complex also on Linux 😀.
I do have a quarter of an idea of trying to selfhost a #holossocial relay server, because I love the idea of letting the users smartphone be the servers, as much as they can