• TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works
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      Also -

      them: it’s ridiculous they aren’t listening to the user

      the instance: held a vote and the majority voted to defederate

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      Have you looked into the process of actually spinning up your own Mastodon instance? It’s not exactly the good old days of throwing together a LAMP box and installing PHPBB on it.

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        I’ve done it and it’s not a whole lot harder than that. The additional steps are:

        • Install dependencies - exact commands are provided in the instructions for Debian-based systems
        • Create a more complex web server configuration file - for which a template is provided
        • Set up systemd services to start it at boot - templates are provided

        It is harder than managed hosting where you might only need to create a database user in a web control panel and upload files for PHPBB, but there’s managed hosting available for Mastodon.

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          but there’s managed hosting available for Mastodon.

          FWIW, I recall when elestio announced that they were offering managed hosting for kbin, and that they already did managed hosting of lemmy instances, and and I’m sure that there is managed hosting for at least lemmy available elsewhere.

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          Doesn’t it require a whole mess of Docker instances and some kind of orchestrator to host? Or is it easier to stand up on a single server now? I haven’t looked into it in a year or so.