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by rglullis 1511 days ago
You can run Pleroma (with its database) on a raspberry pi with 1GB RAM. A single-user instance of Mastodon will require 8GB to run comfortably.

I think the main issue of Mastodon is that its search completely reliant on elasticsearch, while Pleroma tries to go by only with PostgreSQL FTS?
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wrycoder 1511 days ago
What could possibly take up 8 GB? It’s just some text display.
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rglullis 1511 days ago
It's a ruby application. Take all the background processes to build timelines, trending hashtags, etc and it adds up. Perhaps a single-user instance might do with less, but still...
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