mastodon-documentation VS pinafore

Visit your instance, make yourself an account, and set yourself as admin by running this function in the Cloudron > Mastodon Terminal: https://github.com/McKael/mastodon-documentation/blob/master/Running-Mastodon/Administration-guide.md

For those wondering about how to sign up to mastodon and what server to pick:

It's like picking an email server. They all have their differences, but generally they are interoperable. You can read users from anywhere, and follow from anywhere. Better yet, it's fairly easy to move your account from one server to another if you don't like it.

Your best bet is some of the bigger second-tier servers (ones that have thousands but not hundreds of thousands of users) because they aren't as heavily loaded.

https://github.com/McKael/mastodon-documentation/blob/master...

An internet search showed https://instances.social/ and https://github.com/McKael/mastodon-documentation/blob/master/Using-Mastodon/List-of-Mastodon-instances.md. There is no website that lists all of them. While this might feel a bit annoying, think about it this way: Imagine looking for a new email-service, there is not the one website that lists all of them. Same here. Since it’s a decentralized service, that’s just not possible.

Found some basic requirements in GitHub: https://github.com/McKael/mastodon-documentation/blob/master/Running-Mastodon/Resources-needed.md

you can find a break down of what cpu and ram needs are expected here, for this tutorial you will be running without docker.

But basically, docker-compose build will get you most of the way there. These instructions are old but mostly still relevant: https://github.com/McKael/mastodon-documentation/blob/master/Running-Mastodon/Docker-Guide.md

For Windows, Whalebird is your go-to since it's in the MS Store. Most of the stuff I've found online as suggestions for Windows are web apps like https://pinafore.social/ or https://elk.zone. Personally, I just use the advanced web view. I need the columns.

https://pinafore.social/

Resilient Web Design, a PWA book by Jeremy Keith:

Pinafore - Alternative web client for Mastodon, focused on speed and simplicity.

Which instance are you on? Mastodon is decentralized, there may be servers that are overloaded whereas other are fast. Like email.

I haven't noticed any big differences in speed, i use both Mastodon for iOS and Pinafore (https://pinafore.social/ ), a PWA. Just add it to your homescreen and it will behave like a native app (and sometime in 2023 Apple has said they will add push notifications to PWAs).

I continue to see people stumble at mastodon resource requirements when setting up their instance, but I fail to understand why everyone is going for a mastodon instance for their personal use.

I am running https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial on a micro instance, probably using 100M ram, with a 30M sqlite database.

True, I don't have all features. It is pure backend, but I can use https://pinafore.social/ as web client and https://f-droid.org/en/packages/su.xash.husky/ as Android app. It implements a good chunk of the Mastodon API. I also use it from Emacs with mastodon.el.

Took me 35 minutes to setup. It runs as a single binary from systemd. Most of the jail features enabled. Not even a system user (DynamicUser).

Mastodon != Fediverse.

i use https://pinafore.social on windows fine.