<![CDATA[Is Single-User Mastodon Instance possible?]]>The one-click Mastodon app doesn't seem to provide the complex administration setup to turn the app into a single-user Mastodon instance. Is it possible to setup one up?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/13510/is-single-user-mastodon-instance-possibleRSS for NodeWed, 13 May 2026 03:26:33 GMTSat, 22 Mar 2025 06:27:06 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Is Single-User Mastodon Instance possible? on Sun, 23 Mar 2025 23:03:09 GMT]]>@scooke @jdaviescoates

Ok, I will look into the storage factor before I applied any fakerelay. Thank for the advice.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104114https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104114Sun, 23 Mar 2025 23:03:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is Single-User Mastodon Instance possible? on Sun, 23 Mar 2025 06:49:45 GMT]]>@jediD83 If it's ONLY you, and you follow NO ONE, but you expect many to follow you anyway to read your posts, then yes, I think it might be enough. But if you are imagining being disciplined enough to do this daily (or maybe a cron job, i guess), that means you will be using it daily... in which case I think it still won't be enough.
Traffic goes up and down. Depending on who you follow, and who's posting what, you will soon enough have a surge of data on your instance. Trust me... TRUST ME, you don't want your server running out of space. @jdaviescoates uses Scaleway. I did too for a little while. I also used my own self-hosted Minio instance for a while. Right now I'm using B2 for my main Cloudron server, but will shift away from that to some other SSHFS mount on another server I rent.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104102https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104102Sun, 23 Mar 2025 06:49:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is Single-User Mastodon Instance possible? on Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:55:05 GMT]]>@scooke

I believed I did read once that we can mitigate this issue by daily clearing out the cache, although I haven't test it yet. Did you do this too?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104099https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104099Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:55:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is Single-User Mastodon Instance possible? on Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:44:44 GMT]]>@scooke said in Is Single-User Mastodon Instance possible?:

Before you go any further though, be sure you have the data storage worked out.

Good advice.

I store my Mastodon data on a Scaleway S3 bucket

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104087https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104087Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:44:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is Single-User Mastodon Instance possible? on Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:41:06 GMT]]>fwiw, I am exactly this - the sole user registered and using my Mastodon, wherein I am the admin (of course). Before you go any further though, be sure you have the data storage worked out. If your storage is on the same server as your Mastodon instance, it will fill up more quickly than you might expect, and then it all comes crashing down. The more users you follow, the more data will be generated. The more you post, the more data is generated. So, make sure you have some off-server data storage worked out, unless Mastodon is the sole app on that server. For example, I was running it on my main server but it just took up too much space, so I moved it to it's own servarica server with 1TB disk, and along with a WP app (to take care of the .well-known issue), it runs fine on 4GB + 4GB swap, and I don't worry about the 1TB.

EDIT: All this using Cloudron, of course!

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104084https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104084Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:41:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is Single-User Mastodon Instance possible? on Sat, 22 Mar 2025 13:37:27 GMT]]>@jdaviescoates Thank you.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104078https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104078Sat, 22 Mar 2025 13:37:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is Single-User Mastodon Instance possible? on Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:42:10 GMT]]>@jediD83 said in Is Single-User Mastodon Instance possible?:

Ok, but do you know where is the "relay" in the Mastodon setting?

It's just /admin/relays

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But first you need to login with the user and then make it an Admin, see https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/mastodon/#admin

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104077https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104077Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:42:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is Single-User Mastodon Instance possible? on Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:26:26 GMT]]>@nebulon

Ok, but do you know where is the "relay" in the Mastodon setting?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104076https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104076Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:26:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is Single-User Mastodon Instance possible? on Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:27:12 GMT]]>Since you are in control of user registrations, by default a fresh installation, which is not using the Cloudron usermanagement, is only limited to the users you are explicitly creating. Just make sure public user registration is disabled.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104061https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104061Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:27:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is Single-User Mastodon Instance possible? on Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:25:23 GMT]]>@jdaviescoates

Interesting. I'm going to try that. However, what I am referring to is building an instance in which I am the administrator and the only user; for the sole purpose of applying FakeRelay and/or fedi.buzz.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104058https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104058Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:25:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is Single-User Mastodon Instance possible? on Sat, 22 Mar 2025 08:30:22 GMT]]>@jediD83 said in Is Single-User Mastodon Instance possible?:

doesn't seem to provide the complex administration setup to turn the app into a single-user Mastodon instance.

What are you referring to here? 🤔

Surely, if you set it up using Cloudron auth and only give one Cloudron user access, then by default you've got a single-user Mastodon instance as no one else will be able to use it, no?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104053https://forum.cloudron.io/post/104053Sat, 22 Mar 2025 08:30:22 GMT