Hello, I have seted up my lemmy server couple months back and am loving it. One problem I have with it is that I can’t follow individual users so I have been thinking about selfhosting another fediverse service that will satiate my need to follow specific users.
Most popular platform on the world generally for that is twitter so I wan’t to see if there is any good twitter alternative. I know of mastodon but have heard that it can be hard to selfhost and uses a lot of storage ( that wouldn’t be that much of a problem with s3 storage provider, like what I do with lemmy already ).
So I would like to know if there is any simpler “twitter” alternatives for following single user’s on the fediverse, preferably with s3 storage support.
If mastodon is the best in that regard I most likelly will just selfhost it.
If you want to host a single-user instance for yourself only, take a look at gotosocial or microblogpub?
As I understand it, most of the reasons the larger fedi softwares are so difficult to set up is because they require multi-user sign up and moderation tools (I may be wrong about the particulars, but to me it seems logical that you don’t buy a bus to drive yourself to the office and back).
I selfhost both Lemmy and Mastodon. Lemmy is set and forget follow the communities you etc. Mastodon does need a little bit of tweeking after being setup. I have a script the removes remote content from my server after 7 days which keeps the used space down considerably. More details about the commands used can be found here -> https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/tootctl/#media-remove
Update: I have ended up with hosting a sharkey instance, mostly because of it’s very active development and nice ui. ( No way it was cause of the shark costumed waifu )
Mastodon is a hellavalot easier to self-host then Lemmy, so if you got Lemmy running reliably then Mastodon would be a breeze.
Everyone gives solid advice, so I will point you to trusty https://fedidb.org/software .
Mostly to see stats of Fediverse but also the soft that is available. Maybe you find one that suit you.
