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Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

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[-] leopardboy@netmonkey.tech 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, if you've got a decent amount of Linux experience, I don't think you'll have any issues. Mastodon's installation is well-documented and works. My only criticism is that it's a bit long and you have to be careful not to miss anything.

On the other hand, I recall installing Pixelfed back several months ago and having a difficult time. The documentation was lacking, and it required me to use Arch Linux, which I had never used. I was able to get it working, but eventually terminated the instance after a while because I was never using it.

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago

Oof, yeah, requiring someone to use Arch definitely seems like a steep requirement lol

[-] leopardboy@netmonkey.tech 3 points 2 years ago

LOL

It wasn't bad -- I just wasn't familiar with it.

[-] azura@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Wait. I'm looking at the Pixelfed installation guide right now and it doesn't tell me to use Arch at all? Isn't it just a PHP app?

[-] leopardboy@netmonkey.tech 2 points 2 years ago

That's awesome. This was several months ago when there was a link to some specific Arch Linux documentation that @dansup@mastodon.social mentioned was the most complete. Sounds like it's been cleaned up.

Yeah, I think it is a PHP app.

[-] azura@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

mm. Might have been a getting started from the ground up kind of setup guide and the author might be most familiar with that. But happily it seems like there's docker files in the main repo, including docker compose files, so that should make it quite easy to set up.

[-] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Yea, but then they can say "I use arch btw". That's what really matters in life.

[-] MoreIronOre@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago
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