managed to set up all hardware and software on this instance free of charge (except email delivery which uses aws ses but i could've set up local smtp) with free domain from freenom, free TLS cert from Let's Encrypt, free VPS server from Oracle, and free software from Mastodon and Postgres etc. Took a bit of effort to set it all up but i'm surprised at how smooth it's all running
@eeby yeah i watched the "feels good man" doco a little while ago. nuts what happened to matt furie's creation and toally not fair. na they don't get to take it like that. i love that he is suing them to take it back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97akfYZv28I
yo @hyper what up
thanks for the follow @nanda @bunnegirl @grant fancy seeing you here
Not sure if I've posted this here yet but here is my latest Substack newsletter. Give it a read and share. https://phocks.substack.com/p/5-the-clearest-way-into-the-universe
update on this thanks to @lamp
"that's cuz elasticsearch is assumed to be used on a dedicated host and will allocate like half of the ram... create the file /etc/elasticsearch/jvm.options.d/mem.options with the following content...
-Xmx1G
-Xms1G
...to make it use 1GB for example."
totally works. now using around 2gb ram
alter-ego account of @phocks so i can post all the spicy takes i want without being censored or suspended. built on a single-user personal instance of mastodon running on a vps in the cloud. follow along if ya wanna. there will probably be some animal activism posts, politics, swearing, and general nsfw stuff on here. if you don't like it just unfollow no worries mate