I agree. Same story here. I self-hosted Mastodon for five years. Now I'm paying for masto.host and also running my own GoToSocial instance. Mastodon itself is a pain, one viral post is enough to make the Ruby and Elasticsearch processes chew through 8GB of RAM. Plus Masto version migrations can be painful.
GoToSocial isn’t bad though. I may even get rid of full-blown Mastodon at some point, as there’s not much I miss when using GoToSocial. There are also a few other Mastodon-compatible ActivityPub servers at different stages of maturity, each with different trade-offs, just like Nostr.
That said, Nostr certainly has the edge here. It’s kinda amazing that I can run Haven + Nosotros with all the bells and whistles on such minimal resources. It’s a much more feature-rich combo than something like GoToSocial for sure, and it doesn’t require 8GB+ of memory like Mastodon, or a full datacentre, a nuclear reactor, and privileged access to proprietary software like Bluesky 🤣.
Anthony Accioly
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2025-06-14 12:50:32
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