Notices by Leah (leah@chaos.social)

And because you are still reading and maybe plan to run your own instance. It's not “just” the tech or not “just” the social part. It's difficult and time-consuming work that isn't easily scalable. I know it’s a great feeling if people like what you build, but it wouldn’t help anyone if you burn out or your instance is going to be a hell because you have not the resources to moderate and administrate it properly.

If you still think “an own instance sounds like a great idea!”. Do it! But scale organic. Try to limit the registrations. Work with invites. I would recommend a closed registration and everyone with an account can invite more people. This worked great for a long time on my instance, and it prevents most of the problems above.

As an experienced admin and #mastoadmin here is my opinion on you running your own instance.

Don't. Do. It!

I have your attention now? I will explain myself in this short thread. 🧵 👇

The above is a good and safe default, so I repeat, don't do it! At least, unless you have a good reason and know what you're doing. I'm serious, and in most cases you really don't know what you're doing.

I'm currently rescuing an instance that is a mess, because I couldn't say no. And I'm sure there a many more instances like this out there. Instances that have grown too fast and are maintained by a single person. THIS could break the fediverse.

So, here are my tips:

+ Don't run an instance for people or a community you don't know.

+ Don't run an instance if you don't have admin experience yourself and don't have a motivated and experienced friend who wants to run the instance together with you.

+ Don't run multiple instances.

+ Don't run an instance for more than 100 people if you are a single admin without admin experience. (If you still think it is a good idea. And a single user instance can be a good idea, for example.)

+ Don't run an instance for more than 1000 people if you are a single admin with admin experience.

+ Don't run an instance for more than 10.000 people. Just don't. You can't handle it if you are not planning to employ people full time.

If you want to run an instance for a community with more than 100 people, pick a good and motivate friend to help you. Find someone you trust to help. Someone you trust in helping you do the ugly decisions that will come.

@b3n I have no clue what your question actually is?

@b3n I really like the chronological timeline and you lost me at mentioning blockchain bullshit.

My timeline is filled with more than 50% meta talk about how mastodon works, how bad twitter is, about the great and the bad features of mastodon and so on. That's great and I understand that this is good and normal, especially after so many of you joining over the last days.

But for someone who is here for over 5 years it a little hard, the other original content is drowning in meta talk. So please add CWs to them.

Was braucht es in Zeiten wie dieser? Richtig, mehr Kunst an der wir uns erfreuen können. Daher gibt's jetzt das neue Projekt #oneLeahADay (to keep the doomscrolling at bay), bei dem ich jeden Tag versuche ein Bild oder vielleicht auch mal andere Kunst von mir zu posten.

Heute gibts ein paar der Zeichnungen von gestern Abend, Haare üben. Kostet ein bisschen Überwindung Bilder von etwas zu teilen, das ich noch lerne 😉 #oneLeahADay

Heute gibt es ein Bild aus dem Archiv von letztem Sommer :) #oneLeahADay

Heute gibt es wieder eine Zeichnung #oneLeahADay

Und der Post für heute: wieder eine Zeichnung ;) #oneLeahADay

Heute gibt's ein Foto von einer Apfel Blüte (diesmal wirklich) an einem alten knorrigen Baum 🍏 #oneLeahADay

Diesmal war ich spontan im Schau- und Sichtungsgarten, wo gerade alles voller Tulpen ist :) #oneLeahADay

Passend zu meiner Vergesslichkeit heute, gibt's ein Vergissmeinnicht :) #oneLeahADay

Das Bild ist zwar nicht aus diesem Jahr, aber wurde auch Mitte April aufgenommen ;) #oneLeahADay

(Übrigens auch eines meiner Lieblingsbilder das auf Leinwand in meinem Wohnzimmer hängt)

Heute was analoges ;) #oneLeahADay

Ist doch klar was heute kommen muss ;) 🐰 #oneLeahADay