Mastodon v4.0.0 Release Candidate

Re:Mastodon v4.0.0 Release Candidate by Vecr on Sunday November 06, 2022 @01:29AM (#33489392)

Yeah if you don't federate with anyone. Otherwise people will send you stuff to rack up your bill. I say just run it from your house, and use wireguard and haproxy with a VPS to get the traffic to and from the wider Internet if you don't have IPs and/or don't want your home network getting DOSed.

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Re:Mastodon v4.0.0 Release Candidate by solatic on Sunday November 06, 2022 @01:11AM (#33489682)

> People will send you stuff to rack up your bill

Sure, but on a personal level, that's still very, very cheap, almost without concern for how much you follow. CloudFront and API Gateway are pennies per million requests. SQS usage would probably fit in the free tier. DynamoDB, if implemented with a single-table design, would probably cost no more than a couple of bucks, and storage would probably fit in the free tier. You can use IAM policy on pre-signed URLs to restrict the maximum object size of an object that someone is sending you, as well as implement effective rate limiting and automatic expiration with lifecycle policies that keep costs under control.

Of course, costs could expand if the user wants to keep an infinite history, but that's their choice, by design.

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Re:Mastodon v4.0.0 Release Candidate by BlueTemplar on Sunday November 06, 2022 @06:57AM (#33491654)

One of the biggest problems that decentralization faces is that governments have been dragging their feet on mandating IPv6 rollout and IPv4 shutdown :

256 persistent (prefix) IPs is supposed to be the bare minimum for residential customers !

https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-690#4-2-2---48-f...

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