Are you still running the refactorcamp mastodon or gave up?
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Gave up for now. I miss the refactorcamp mastodon, and I have a backup of it and a server subscription that I'm not using. My life got a lot more complicated so I haven't had time and energy to start it on the new server.
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If you know of someone with the technical skill and time and energy to get it up and running again, I could give access to the server and the backup. The day-to-day maintenance wasn't too bad, I might be able to do that.
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nah... I think mastodon is a dead end overall.
If you don't want the domain let me know...
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I like the concept of Mastodon, something decentralized, with power to moderate and curate a community. It reminds me of old livejournal communities.
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However the software has way more moving parts than I expected before I did sysadmin for it, and more things can go technically wrong more easily than I expected. The time and energy and technical skills are barriers to entry.
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It has given me more appreciation for the technical teams of people keeping Twitter running.
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If I get to a point where I have time to work on it, I may get it up and running again. I've been thinking about it, and wishing I had it there as a lens through which to view the world, in addition to twitter, email, blogs, etc.
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It does seem to have its own vibe and affordances, and be something distinct from twitter, email, blogs. I liked it. It isn't a direct replacement for twitter though, although that is how it is sometimes pitched. Discoverability is different, for one thing.
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The managed hosting options were not good for a mastodon instance of refactorcamp's size. Most are ok for an instance with 1-5 users, but get expensive fast.
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how many users were there after I quit? And iirc you can prune inactive users or something? Last I remember there were only about a dozen people who were regularly active.
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There were about 50 active users, and 1000 inactive users. I could prune, but I kind of liked having the inactive users around because the accounts they followed showed up in the instance feed, and allowed more discoverability of the wider fediverse.
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