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From: Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: MAstodon setup disaster
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 01:37:19 -0000 (UTC)
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In comp.os.linux.misc, The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> wrote:
> All right I have attempt to set up Mastodon in
> 
> Debian 12 (snap included)
> Ubuntu 24 (snap included)
> 
> FreeBSD based  on  https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/net-im/mastodon

Mastodon seems a bear to run. Have you considered the lightweight snac2?

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

I'm paying masto.host for an instance, but would be tempted to switch to
snac2 if it suppported account migrations (which, alas, it does not:
"simple, minimalistic" implementations are not full featured).

I might switch my bot account over to a snac2 instance, as I don't care
much about history there. Currently I'm using an even lighter weight
activitypub framework, activity-bot. My fork:

https://codeberg.org/elithebearded/activity-bot

Elijah
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if you are installing via snap you might not like complex installs