Mastodon needs to be easier and more efficient to self host if it's benefits over non-federated social media is going to be able to shine

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  • Mastodon

    Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

  • https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon and the guide to contributing is under the Documentation link.

  • chart

    Helm chart for Mastodon deployment in Kubernetes (by mastodon)

  • The official Helm chart (https://github.com/mastodon/chart) has also come a long way too. I've been using it for an instance I'm self-hosting (but haven't really opened it to the public yet). No major issues with it so far.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • mastodon-documentation

    Full documentation repository for Mastodon

  • 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

  • mastodon-installer

    🦣 Mastodon auto-installer for self-hosted instances

  • But have you considered this? https://github.com/jakejarvis/mastodon-installer

  • posix-spawn

    Ruby process spawning library

  • git clone https://github.com/rtomayko/posix-spawn.git cd posix-spawn/ gem build posix-spawn.gemspec gem install posix-spawn*.gem

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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