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Fed up with my original mastodon instance behaviour and want to really boost federation concept.
Any advice where to migrate?
Should I go for a self hosted one?
Any advice on how to migrate smoothly?
@beaufils
I had the idea to setup esr.social for french researchers #ESR with a Mangane instance (which is more similar to X in terms of UI). That would require a team leader setting up a small team to operate/moderate/advertise this instance, to give trust into it by avoiding a monoadmin user. There are multiple researchers and institutional accounts who could certainly join it and/or give a hand on these topics. But never had enough energy to set this up 
See https://framapiaf.org/@myoan/111878036600765525
@beaufils (what is boost federation BTW? 
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Aligning my thoughts & ideas on federation with my use of mastodon.
Being on a *too big* instance breaks the spirit of the whole thing IMHO.
I would appreciate to benefit from experience/expertise of people who had time to study and experiment more than me.
For instance, before migrating to a single hosted instance or a much larger shared one, I would like to list pro and cons of each approach as well as technical requirements (RAM, disk, admin time, etc.).
@beaufils @myoan @mwl Ok, so off the top of my head:
Mastodon isn’t really designed for single-person instances; everything about it overkill for this use case. Is it possible, yes? Will it be using up way more resources than necessary? Yes. Will you run into scaling issues on a single-person instance? If you have a lot of followers *and* you engage with them, yes, you could end up launching a denial-of-service attack on yourself each time you reply to an active thread…
@beaufils @myoan @mwl … (See https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/)
It will also take time and effort to run your own instance, even if you’re technically capable. This is why I have the way more capable @jan run my instance at https://toot.io. Very happy with it there (see https://toot.io/mastodon_hosting.html). I’m on the community plan, I believe.
Hth :)
