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  • EccTM@lemmy.mltoMastodon@lemmy.mlMastodon self hosting
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    2 months ago

    I think with a self-hosted mastodon instance, the main downside is poorer discovery across the fediverse as a whole.

    When you scale up to the thousands of users something like mastodon.social has, it’s not really an issue because other users have already established connections between instances by following or replying… but if your instance only has a single user, you only see and share posts with the instances you’ve directly interacted with, and it can be really isolating. You have to already know what external accounts you want to follow, because your instance is initially blind to them.

    I feel like more instance connections leads to way larger amounts of data consumption too. I follow 120, and am followed by 12… my instance is currently using 24.1 GB for Media Storage.



  • Just followed you from my mastodon account, I don’t bother posting there much, use it more like a news feed than a social media @EccTM@mastodon.emmetcoughlan.com

    I believe there’s an official federated (if you’re not completely anti-meta) AEW account here: @aew@threads.net

    Not sure if it makes more or less posts than the official bird site one you’ve got a mirror of there - I don’t go to that area of the internet any more.

    I’m pro-“toots”. Most people’s comments are glitter-fart worthy at best within 140 characters 😂