Hello, I have seted up my lemmy server couple months back and am loving it. One problem I have with it is that I can’t follow individual users so I have been thinking about selfhosting another fediverse service that will satiate my need to follow specific users.
Most popular platform on the world generally for that is twitter so I wan’t to see if there is any good twitter alternative. I know of mastodon but have heard that it can be hard to selfhost and uses a lot of storage ( that wouldn’t be that much of a problem with s3 storage provider, like what I do with lemmy already ).
So I would like to know if there is any simpler “twitter” alternatives for following single user’s on the fediverse, preferably with s3 storage support.
If mastodon is the best in that regard I most likelly will just selfhost it.
https://gotosocial.org/ currently seems to be the popular choice for mastodon compatible single user instances that are easy to setup and run.
Personally I run a https://akkoma.social/ instance, which works fine, but it is a bit more complex to setup and requires a lot of customization to look nice.
GoToSocial is pretty good, but it has some fundamental limitations like being unable to follow hashtags and not having a web client of its own. I currently have a self-hosted instances of both Mastodon and GoToSocial (for testing purposes), but I mostly use the Mastodon one.
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https://gotosocial.org/ currently seems to be the popular choice for mastodon compatible single user instances that are easy to setup and run.
Personally I run a https://akkoma.social/ instance, which works fine, but it is a bit more complex to setup and requires a lot of customization to look nice.
GoToSocial is pretty good, but it has some fundamental limitations like being unable to follow hashtags and not having a web client of its own. I currently have a self-hosted instances of both Mastodon and GoToSocial (for testing purposes), but I mostly use the Mastodon one.