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That checks out. You conveniently skipped the part where I requested a single messaging solution which works with either modern android/ios devices or with anything you'll find in your dad's(or grandads I guess) drawer, can manage multiple recipients, escalations to sms/home automation bells, works reliably even if the uplink goes down for few hours and so on.
And no, you very much can not run mastodon server on a Commodore 64.
But you seem like a young and enthustiatic individual. I was one "a few" years ago. Keep it going, but that arrogant attitude won't get you anywhere. Email has been a thing since the 1970s and there's a reason why it's still going strong. 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.
You'll live and learn. My guess is that when you reach my age, email is still working just fine and majority of the hot stuff which is around right now has faded to the history.
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 absolutely can. There's an entire community dedicated to running Mastodon servers on old hardware.
Is it ignorant old farts refusing to embrace new technology?
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.
It doesn't work "just fine", it's fucking awful. Outside of trying to host it, just using it is a nightmare. Trying to find any information is a nightmare because there's no common communication thread, and the emails are chock full of unnecessary bloat, and everyone has a fucking signature that's a mile long and full of giant images. You can't send videos. There's a bunch of tracking features built into it. It's insecure. Like, the list goes on...
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.
I don't know where to find that information. I've just seen it running.
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.
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.