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“mastodon.social has over 2 million users … I think it's safe to say the the mastodon codebase is tuned for mastodon.social”

muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/2…

I keep getting asked why I’m working on the Small Web – which is tuned for instances of one (not two or two million).

This is why.

(It’s also why I was advising a certain someone to limit the size of his instance… until my advice was no longer compatible with their plans/welcome.)

#sizeMatters #federated #fediverse #vs #peerToPeer #SmallWeb

#fediverse #federated #SmallWeb #peertopeer #sizematters #vs
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Troy Patterson
Troy Patterson
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Interesting write up. Please know that there are lots of people who are appreciative of your work (many may not even realize it). That doesn't pay the bills though.

I lack the skills that you have, but I am interested in a future where I could run my own Mastodon instance.

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MonstersX
MonstersX
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Hi, Any examples of running kitten inside Docker? would be great to deploy to my home unraid server..
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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It’s not really a supported use case (the idea is that your Kitten app/site runs in a tiny VPS or on a little SBC plugged into your router) but there is this, in case it helps: codeberg.org/kitten/app/pulls/…

feat: Add containerized version

This patch introduces a Containerfile to run kitten in an OCI container. This can be useful for various environments, from writing some automated tests to running it on a developers machine without installing it natively.
Codeberg.org
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Andrew Adams
Andrew Adams
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Small Web will be a game changer over the Big Web. Once it's full developed and adopted as a standard alternative products/services vs the Surveillance capitalism mainstream web.
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