One of the goals we have with GoToSocial is to make self-hosting your own fediverse instance really easy. In practice this means a few things: Providing a single static binary for easy deployment and without requiring containers Being very mindful of how much compute and memory we require No dependencies on external databases like Postgres, background job systems like Sidekiq which would require Redis, or an object store for media storage even though we do support using some of these things Though we don’t want to require an external database, we do need a database.
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