This is about making your own personal instance of a microblog that’s ActivityPub enabled. It’s much lighter than running Mastodon that’s mean to be a hosting platform for a lot of users.
Yes, it’s a virtual server that you can get from a provider like Digital Ocean. It’s not running on your machine locally, it’s the same thing that the admins of Mastodon instances have to do to run Mastodon servers.
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This is about making your own personal instance of a microblog that’s ActivityPub enabled. It’s much lighter than running Mastodon that’s mean to be a hosting platform for a lot of users.
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No, it means you run your own VPS to host your personal blog.
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Yes, it’s a virtual server that you can get from a provider like Digital Ocean. It’s not running on your machine locally, it’s the same thing that the admins of Mastodon instances have to do to run Mastodon servers.
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pretty much nobody runs servers on bare metal nowadays
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it seems like maybe this is compatible, and is easier to host for a single user instance
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Yep, that would be the ip adres of my €5 a month VPS somewhere in an german datacenter.
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How would that be leaking, home hosters aside?
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Which happen to be myself. And the datacenter facility owner.
It’s the same concept as running a mastodon server but turning off registration. No more or less secure.