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Ulrich@feddit.org 2 days agoYou conveniently skipped the part
I didn’t skip anything. The solutions I listed support all of that, with the possible exception of running on old shit which…why is that even remotely relevant?
you very much can not run mastodon server on a Commodore 64.
You absolutely can. There’s an entire community dedicated to running Mastodon servers on old hardware.
Email has been a thing since the 1970s and there’s a reason why it’s still going strong.
Is it ignorant old farts refusing to embrace new technology?
Things like XMPP has been around for a good while and there’s a reason why they’re not even close of overtaking email as a primary communication technology around.
Because it came around after email and all the old farts were too committed to it to learn something new? Is it because tech oligarchs learned from their lessons and embraced, extended, exploited, and abandoned open standards? What is the reason? You tell me.
email is still working just fine and majority of the hot stuff which is around right now has faded to the history.
It doesn’t work “just fine”, it’s fucking awful.
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Ok. Send me the link of disk image of that. I have C64 laying around with 1541 disk drive. I’ll set up a public mastodon instance running on a C64 with a webcam stream of the setup.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 days ago
I don’t know where to find that information. I’ve just seen it running.
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Commodore 64 is a home computer released at 1982. Modern expansions for it allows the thing to actually have tcp/ip stack and it can run things like telnet, but your single mastodon server, in comparison of what was available in 1980s, is pretty much equal of the whole bandwidth and storage of the internet (or arpanet, depending on how you want to time things).
Mastodon server requires (roughly) at least 2 gigabytes of memory and 20 gigabytes of storage. And with that it needs at least dual core 2GHz CPU to run it.
Commodore 64 had 1Mhz. A million hertz sounds like a big number, but we’re talking (at minimum) of two processor cores running with 2000 million hertz. Also, C=64 had 64 000 bytes of memory while the absolute minimum to run mastodon instance is 2 000 000 000 bytes.
And then there’s the storage. Your minimum mastodon instance should have at least 20GB of storage. 1541 used 5,25" floppy disks which could store up to 170 kilobytes. So you’d need someone to change disks as needed on a over 400 meter tall tower of floppy disks.
So, please tell me again where to get disk images to run mastodon server on a C=64 and how you just know that plain old email is garbage and old people just don’t know what they’re talking about.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 days ago
I know what a Commodore 64 is, brother. And you can ask all you want where to find that information. And I can keep telling you I don’t know.