@emdeesee I'm not actively tooting from it, but the usual instructions for installing mastodon worked fine for me on debian 9 using a digitalocean $5/month droplet. It's been running for a few days now with no resource consumption problems. I did have to allocate a 2GB swap file though. I just followed the https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Running-Mastodon/Production-guide.md instructions. It took a little more time than I expected, so set aside an afternoon.
@emdeesee # free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 504396 421848 9424 10064 73124 59592
Swap: 2097148 663392 1433756
# uptime
15:56:36 up 2 days, 18:57, 3 users, load average: 0.03, 0.02, 0.00
@stylus That's interesting; that's for letting me know that.
Are you planning on using it?
@emdeesee probably not. I don't have a particular community I want to build, and a one-user-instance doesn't get you a useful local or federated timeline...
@stylus sigh
That's the problem with the dream of the highly-decentralized, federated social platorm, innit?
