After starting to host my own private Mastodon instance it became clear that disk usage was going to be problem. I eventually moved all the assets to an S3 compatible Object Storage. Now I’m moving away from Backblaze B2 as a S3 provider to Scaleway. I wanted to highlight why and how I did it, […]
The current (4.0.2) Mastodon profile page is bad. Bad because it requires JavaScript to load. If you want to go back in time and look at your own posts it’s not convenient, it’s just slow. I find myself wanting to find old posts to re-share or revisit often. So I decided to first build a […]
The out of the box Mastodon does not come with sitemap.xml generation built-in. If you want to push a user’s sitemap to Google or other search engines here’s how to do it. 💡 My setup is meant to be for a single-user Mastodon instance. 🤔 Why? It’s simple, I don’t have Elastic Search set up […]
⚠️ I have written a follow-up post moving from B2 to Scaleway as Object Storage provider. This post is still valid, the only thing is I’m not longer using B2, which might be perfectly fine for your needs 👍 When I installed my private personal Mastodon instance y quickly noticed Mastodon has storage issues, so […]
A Webmention enables enables cross-site conversations. Letting site A know that site B is mentioning them (be it via link, a like, a re-post… there are many times of mentions). One of the cool use cases is to link your Fediverse account (Mastodon, in my case) with your blog. So every time you share a […]
Mastodon’s built-in CLI gives you the availability to clean attachments and previews from remote accounts, purging the disk cache. This is fantastic and you couldn’t possible survive with out it. My current crontab job hourly with this: Here’s the content of the purge-media.sh script: The size of the cached media will depend on how many […]
⚠️ Read this before deep diving I’ve been dealing with Mastodon’s high disk usage for the last week. Have a read before installing your own Mastodon instance. I would recommend checking out Pleroma and Akkoma before taking a decision. They have way less system requirements than Mastodon. EDIT November 8th Self-hosting That’s right, I know […]