crollsurf wrote:Haha, no worries. I jumped on for a bit of fun and help you know it was set up properly. I can actually see why you might want a private instance.
I was on aus.social for years. It was very chilled until the twitter glitterarty showed up.
I expect I'll get sick of trying to maintain my own instance (especially since I'm not really into social media in the first place). I'll likely migrate back to another instance at some point, but it's just interesting to see how it all works from the admin side of a Mastodon instance.
Noteably, I set up this entire instance without any actual financial cost at all. I found a cloud provider that has an "Always Free" tier of service. Of course the "Always Free" virtual machines are fairly minimal. But the ARM VMs are spec'd with more CPUs and RAM and storage than the Intel VMs, even on the free tier. So I went ARM, and don't need anything high-end for this, if I don't have more than a handful of accounts on it.
I also installed a Matrix server on it too, but I don't know anybody on Matrix, so that was a waste of time.