Previous related posts:
Part I: http://bertilak.ca/blog/idea/the-role-of-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-in-education/
Part II:http://bertilak.ca/blog/idea/the-role-of-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-in-education-part-ii-proof-of-concept/

From the initial moment this idea of using Mastodon as an educational tool plopped into my head I've been concerned with the one weak point in my grand scheme, the buy …

The proof of concept for this project will be two complete units serving a Mastodon/Pleroma instance with auto-federation on the same local network.

Hardware

Hardware is specified by bounds on RAM required by Mastodon/Pleroma and the hard drive requirements calculated with this tool indicate a larger hard drive …