I am thinking about hosting my own Mastodon server from home on a Raspberry Pi (Pi4 8GB)?

  1. Are there good tutorials out there?
  2. What’s the annual cost just to host yourself?

@linux @nixCraft @raspberrypi

  • matEnglish
    9·
    5 months ago

    I ran my own Mastodon for a while. While it does work, it takes up a ton of storage (every image and video you see is cached by your own server). It also doesn’t work great for viewing stuff like replies and older posts, since backfilling is still not a thing. I ended up just browsing on remote servers instead. A great blog post about this: https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/11/some-notes-on-mastodon/

    • dan@upvote.au
      5·
      5 months ago

      every image and video you see is cached by your own server

      Even videos and images you never see get cached. I barely use Mastodon and my server still uses around 50GB space.

      • kuruminEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Lemmy is A Lot better in this aspect