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in reply to Adam Gaskins

I run a diaspora pod on a cloud VM. It has 8 cores and 16GB of RAM. CPU and RAM utilization average around 50% while the MySQL DB is about 9GB and about 200GB of disk space for images, etc. I also run an XMPP server on there as well but that load is negligible.
in reply to Adam Gaskins

Yes, it's public but registrations are currently closed. It's been up for about a year and a half now and about 16k users.
in reply to Adam Gaskins

I use Friendica because it's written in PHP. I hate python and remove it from my distribs. actually, I can name hundreds of minor problems with Friendica, but it is relatively fast among similar services. so I'm content with it.
I think about writing similar service in C, for console. this is one of many ideas I always have no time for 😀 so for a while I use Friendica. try to make it better by reporting of fixing small bugs. it's anyway better than G+ that killed all our accounts one fine day.
in reply to Adam Gaskins

I tried running Diaspora, Friendica and Hubzilla. Friendica is the most inefficient - even on mostly single user instance (well, with a couple of bots) it keeps thrashing database all the time and both DB and file storage are getting HUGE 😀

Hubzilla is pretty much the same but creates lighter system load.

Diaspora is the most efficient and polished - it has very lean DB and doesn't cache anything persistently so file storage is mostly the stuff you uploaded and not five billion avatars of people you never even met. Older Diaspora nodes handle huge databases without deleting anything.

I like Friendica the best feature-wise though. I wish they cleaned up their DB and storage a bit but likely this is too much to ask.

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