A thread on the Fediverse infected my curiosity with the question: How small of a server can GoToSocial run on and still give a decent user experience for a single-user instance? Let’s find out.

Until late 2010, I’d been using pretty much entirely open source software on my personal desktop and severs. This mostly worked pretty well, except very specifically with regards to my photography work. At that point in my life, photography had tu…