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		rglullis on May 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Togethr: Own Mastodon-compatible decentralized soc... You can run Pleroma (with its database) on a raspberry pi with 1GB RAM. A single-user instance of Mastodon will require 8GB to run comfortably. I think the main issue of Mastodon is that its search completely reliant on elasticsearch, while Pleroma tries to go by only with PostgreSQL FTS?

wrycoder on May 6, 2022 [–]

What could possibly take up 8 GB? It’s just some text display.

rglullis on May 6, 2022 | [–]

It's a ruby application. Take all the background processes to build timelines, trending hashtags, etc and it adds up. Perhaps a single-user instance might do with less, but still...

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