For more clarity, my single-user instance once federated enough to interact with at least my close friends was pulling 3GB of RAM basically at all times... So.. depends what you can get for $10/mo haha
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Yeah, that was basically my gut feeling. I have the impression some of the Mastodon die-hards believe AP/Mastodon is super efficient and atproto/Bluesky is not, but I honestly don’t know why.
the answer is always tech tribalism tbh. The "My thing is better than yours" types that can't actually explain why it is.
AFAIK AP devs outside of Masto hate working with the protocol, it's something I keep hearing a bit about. I remember someone who worked on AP telling Cohost NOT to implement it.
friend of mine runs a single-user mastodon instance, then let someone else host it for him... and now that host is charging more than 10 bucks for mastodon hosting.
idk if it's mastodon specifically but AP doesn't seem very good of a protocol lol. the more i learn about it the more confused i get.
Oh yeah, definitely - the first VPS I run this on in a different hosting had 2 GB RAM I think, and it was suffocating there, especially with Elastic also running on it. Things got a lot faster when I moved it to Netcup.
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AFAIK AP devs outside of Masto hate working with the protocol, it's something I keep hearing a bit about. I remember someone who worked on AP telling Cohost NOT to implement it.
idk if it's mastodon specifically but AP doesn't seem very good of a protocol lol. the more i learn about it the more confused i get.
atproto on the other hand is just kinda a bunch of webservers and some search engines lmao