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Except that costs money. And while VMs come cheap Mastodon is storage heavy. That costs a lot remotely while a 240GB SSD is probably in the drawer or not a lot at even retail prices today.

If you have set up your own RaspberryPis then its the logical next step. Otherwise I'd still go with mastodon.* or other public service. You don't have to think and especially be spared the regular update cycle.

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I moved an account tonight to a home instance I set up yesterday. It's already federating nicely.

If you are a bit techie its not difficult to set up your own instance at home for free. If you are lacking a spare static IPv4 you could use IPv6 and proxy it through Cloudflare free to serve to IPv4 only users.

#mastoadmin #cloudflare