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Running My Own Mastodon Server, Day 1

My server works. I have 19 users. What could go wrong?

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Benjamin Wittes
Nov 26, 2022
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Good Morning

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So it turns out that putting one’s own Mastodon server together is pretty easy—that is, it’s easy if you pay someone to do it.

Yesterday, I wrote about my deranged impulse purchase of Mastodon server space to host my own “instance” for close friends and said I would report on how it goes.

The answer? So far, so s…

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