Looking for experience & advice re: #SelfHosting a personal #Fediverse #Fedi variant instance such as #Hometown / #Calckey / #Misskey / #Akkoma / #Pleroma
Mildly interested in running my own personal instance, but probably not stock #Mastodon ... a few years back I played with #Pleroma which prompted me to learn #elixir but I see the landscape has changed
I'm interested in something with a smaller resource footprint like Pleroma, but some of the extra features of #HomeTown are appealing. Looks like #Calckey might have a healthy dev community and some comparable features? Seems nodejs-based; do Misskey/Calckey also have a smaller resource footprint?
I know I can just spin up a few variants and try them out but it's also hard to really see how something like this works without getting follows & timelines populated as well, which takes time, so any experienced advice is welcome!
Did you know you could use Mastodon as a comment platforms on your blog? I blogged about this 2 years ago https://carlschwan.eu/2020/12/29/adding-comments-to-your-static-blog-with-mastodon/ but since there has been a lot of newcomers recently, it might be a good idea to share it again 😜