Ayn Rand Social and Karl Marx Social are each hosted remotely with Digital Ocean in the San Francisco, California region, on separate but equal servers. Each server’s specifications are: 8 GB Memory / 4 AMD vCPUs / 160 GB Disk / SFO3 (Region) / Basic Shared CPU with Premium AMD with NVMe SSD.
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy
As remote server administrators, we’re responsible for everything except the physical maintenance of the machines on which the server is installed. We operate this and a few other servers in our spare time as a personal project.
This project is largely a labor of love that we’re hoping to sustain with some modest financial support from individual community members.
* Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub where users can follow friends and discover new ones. On Mastodon, users can publish anything they want: links, pictures, text, video. All Mastodon servers are interoperable as a federated network (users on one server can seamlessly communicate with users from another one, including non-Mastodon software that implements ActivityPub)!