Web Standards and Going Back to Basics (and Free Software)
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New Style
No more JavaScript (except for Commento and GoatCounter, neither of which impacts any important functionality)
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Mastodon is not ready for me
I just did again the usual web search, and I have verified that Mastodon still does not support managing multiple domains on the same instance, and that there is still no way to migrate an account to a different instance without basically starting from scratch.
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I have managed my own email server since the '90s, but I do not feel that the system administration effort required to maintain a private Mastodon instance would be justified at this point: there is not even a Debian package!
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Lightweight Mastodon instance: gotosocial - Lukáš Zapletal
If you need a lightweight Mastodon instance, I have a tip for you: GoToSocial is an ActivityPub backend written in Go, no dependencies needed, lightweight (well, 50MB binary) and can store data in either SQLite3 or Postgres.
The setup is well documented, you can download pre-built binary, create an empty directory, configure database connection and just run it. It has a built-in support for Let’s Encrypt, however, if you already have a domain with existing web server and Let’s Encrypt certificate, you can turn this feature off.
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