Running a single-user Mastodon instance is really resource intensive (for the server).

Would love to hear about any ideas anyone might have for either streamlining/optimising Mastodon or perhaps another software choice that would be better than Mastodon for a single user, and still allows moving follows/followers... 😬

Feeling in an experimental mood even though I don't really have time 😅

#FediSoftware

Thank you everyone for all your responses. After looking at all the suggestions I believe #Akkoma is closest to what I am looking for.

It would appear bringing followers to another software instance won't work however (only works Mastodon to Mastodon) so I'll mostly be playing around with it for now.

I see now why people have several accounts on different #Fediverse software.

For anyone else curious about Akkoma, here is the project website:

https://akkoma.social/

@axbom

I like #akkoma

@axbom cool! Couldnt find any requirements for akkoma, is it resource thirsty?

@axbom

@andre has written an overview about different mastodon alternatives:

https://blog.myfed.space/mastodon-or-else

@axbom

You can bring #mastodon followers to #calckey

In the somewhat near future, you will be able to convert your #mastodon instance to calckey. It is something they're working on

@steken I'm running Akkoma on my Raspberry, very smoothly @axbom

@axbom I was able to migrate from Mastodon to my self-hosted Akkoma. I just followed the default migration instructions. It can run on a 1Gb RAM VPS and the SSD/HD size can depend on your post retention setting or if you're running other services.

@steken Given that was the original complaint (that mastodon was resource intensive) it’s a fair bet that the one @axbom landed on is light by comparison!

@snott @steken @axbom Some of the best prices I've found (at the moment) for VPSes come from these guys:

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud#pricing

I was on a 2GB RAM VPS and switched to a 4GB RAM (3 CPU vs 1 CPU) instance with them and I believe I'm paying less now than I did for the 2GB RAM VPS 🙂

I had my Akkoma instance on a 1GB RAM VPS (separate from the 2GB RAM VPS I mentioned above) and I combined both VPSes on the new 4GB RAM VPS. So the new server has about 8 blogs running WordPress (all on MySQL) and Akkoma with Postgres and I still have about 50% RAM free most of the time. So that might be a way to go ...

I haven't used these guys before though, and switched to them based on a recommendation from another Fedi user but so far they've been fine. But I've only been with them 2 days 😛

Oh yeah, to respond to a point from earlier, you *can* transfer users over from a Mastodon server to an Akkoma server. I've done it. Just follow the normal transfer process as described on your Mastodon instance, it should work.