My instance gentoo.live was small compared to others very well-known. It was running on Gentoo Linux for 3 years. Probably it had 5 active users average at week. Currently gentoo.live had a reboot, it's running Debian or a Debian derivative, and all previous users are not available anymore. I'm referring me in the article on my experience as the admin of the old gentoo.live instance.

Why would someone would like to be a fediverse admin?

There are many possible motivations for becoming a fediverse instance admin. Some of them are:

To create a space for a specific topic, interest, or community that is not well-represented or welcome on other instances.

To have more control and customization over the look, feel, and functionality of the instance.

To enjoy the technical challenge and learning opportunity of setting up and maintaining a server.

To contribute to the growth and diversity of the fediverse as a whole.

To express one's values and beliefs through the choice of federation policies and moderation practices.

Of course, these are not the only reasons, and different admins may have different goals and preferences. Being a fediverse instance admin can be rewarding, but also demanding and stressful. It requires time, money, skills, and responsibility. It is not a decision to be taken lightly, but rather with careful consideration and planning.

In my case I was pretty interested in learning and it's an experience you only live when you only do yourself. And I was pretty interested in the technical challenge it would be to run it on Gentoo as well I was interested in seeing more servers running Gentoo.

I'm not using Gentoo.

But things have changed since then, currently I own 4 VPS, 3 Raspberry pis, 2 Desktop computers and a Netbook.

That are 10 machines! And most of them are using different hardware.

So I mostly use Debian, Ubuntu and RHEL. Mostly I use Debian, RHEL seldom. My netbook still uses Slackware. What about Gentoo?

The issue is that my main desktop computer is the Raspberry Pi, I tried booting Gentoo from a binary image from Sasaki but it had an error at boot. I think that if I perform a manual installation, report the error and do some research there is a high chance to get it working.

But I feel pretty comfortable right now with the Raspberry Pi OS, even if the Raspberry Pi runs on ARM and there are a lot of missing apps for ARM there are many amd64 apps that runs nicely on the Raspberry Pi thanks to Pi Apps.

My issue is that I haven't be able to be quiet and static to install Gentoo calmly and it's not very likely to make a new installations when I have systems that are working just fine.

The instance was not about Gentoo.

Probably the philosophy of the instance was Install Gentoo in your instance. it was a very general instance.

What have I learned?

Paying attention to resources, even if I'm in Mexico I found a great hosting support in Ionos allowing me to pay in my local currency, because my payments depended a lot of the variations of currency, I learned this pretty bad at COVID time since MXN was so inflated compared with Dollar and Euro.

Also I learned that I love hardware so much, I'm going to continue researching the possibility of only using dedicated hardware in a future! It's interesting running Gentoo on VPS as I did but I believe it is a waste of time if Gentoo is not running on dedicated Hardware. A VPS performance is not the best compared to dedicated Hardware.

And to tell you the truth, I used an expensive VPS for running Gentoo with peace of mind, which is not a very resource savvy election.

Even if my Gentoo installation was simple, it was extremely hard to update it without breaking Gentoo since I forgot to update Gentoo for so long time. Ofc I followed a guide for updating Gentoo but this was a hard task.

Instance rules

I haven't thought about this, I think i just stick with rules most of the instances I interact the most uses. But that rules represent my values? I just created an instance of only one user the past week. And I feel free, I don't have to follow rules, if you are behaving nice you don't need rules. So posting rules to me would be just posting some common sense rules with respect of the universal human rights. And I believe some rules like the copyright are bad done, needs reinterpretation, reformation or simply they are questionable as some rights about the individual freedom can be in contradiction with some other rights.

But I guess I have to attach with these rules I don't completely agree since I don't want my instance down

I really feel bad for those people which may be excluded with our terms and conditions if there is any. Even criminals or simply people who breaks society rules deserves love and find happiness. It's not a justification and sadly we are not psychologist for helping those who want to change or be a better person.

In my instance I'd like to protect individual human rights the most, for instance, even if I agree with Gnu software ideals and I plan on licensing on it my software if you uses Windows and you feel good with it, perfect. The GNU ideals are pretty good as a whole, a society, but probably individually you are just working fine with Windows. Or the case of the abort, probably we have a soul or we don't understand what is the value or the life itself, but, as individual, the abort is what can increase your life quality.

My perspective as accountant and as my experience working with pensions

Since the pandemic started, I have matured a lot, and I have worked with lot's of confidential information of individuals and being an agent in many economic transactions. And I feel proud of it, it's a trust I had acquired thanks to hard working and being consistent.

I also made a lot of mistakes at work, plenty of them, I still have some regrets since this is my first formal job.

Accountancy science has gave me a lot of perspectives to understand society in an economical way, and to understand better an organization and the money.

As an accountant I have an code of ethics, a compromise of integrity and a lot of responsibility as my resolutions and interpretations has legal value and meaning important to society as well as clients.

When I see what a do for a living and my major in this perspective, then I realize that has a lot of meaning and importance what I'm doing for society.

One of my motivations is knowing I'm doing something important, but probably you may say that Princess.wedding is something pretty fancy

But now this is more important than ever, we saw the creation of threads, the transformation of Twitter to X, Youtube is too aggressive with adds. It can be a great change to create AI chat bots with free software to survive in this new order world