@gravecat What if the server admin that gets bored and shuts it down... is you! Run your own vanity instance. *I* of all people was able to spin one up and connect to the fediverse, so someone who knows more of what they're doing could probably do better.
@gravecat Cool, when you learn, I can then lean on you for asking dumb questions I don't want to bother other people with.
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@gravecat Someone whose name I'm blanking on runs a vanity instance on a raspberry pi from home, but that's probably just because it is such a bad idea.
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@gravecat Yeah I think I talked myself out of doing anything from home. I did set up mine using a guide that used DigitalOcean's $10 tier, and awoo uses Scaleway's €3 tier. The guide mentioned other things they skipped, such as using Amazon for file storage. Up-to-10mb attachments to toots (attootchments?) might use up 20gb faster than I'd think.
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@gravecat by 20gb I was referring to Linode's hard drive capacity
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@gravecat the idea being to run a Transformers-themed instance, like there are some other themed instances around. tenforward.social has less than 200 users, and I would think Star Trek would be more universally appealing. No idea how to gauge popularity.
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@gravecat I'm off work for two while weeks starting next Sunday, so I'll totally for sure try it then.
