mastodon.ar.al is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
This is my personal fediverse server.

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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 (what is boost federation BTW? 🤔)

@myoan

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.).

@myoan

Maybe @aral or @mwl would have time to enlight us on self hosted instance.

@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…

@aral @myoan @mwl @jan

Thanks for these advises which confirm my fears.

I will look for a nice instance and will fund the structure which runs it in a way or another.