@aral I wish there was a lightweight Mastodon server that was specifically geared to single person instances.
Do you know of one?
#mastoHelp
@aral @e88 there's https://pleroma.social/ which I hear is much lighter than Mastodon
It also purposely doesn't support dopamine features (likes, follower counts, etc.).
Honestly I really like it. It's a little Spartan but once you get the hang of it, the simplicity is a huge plus.
Source code is here: https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk
@petersanchez wow that seems super lightweight.
@e88
#Pleroma is much more lightweighted than Mastodon as far as I know, although it has a comparable feature set by being a microblogging-service as well. And as a part of the #Fediverse it is of course fully interoperable with mastodon.
@aral
@e88 @dumpsterqueer's GoToSocial is relatively low-resource, I think, not sure how focussed on single-person instances it is though. https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/
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@e88 @aral https://pleroma.social/ is generally lighter weight than mastodon (basically you only need a postgres db, and pleroma itself runs as a pretty lightweight erlang/elixir app). i run it as a single-person instance with minimal issues
https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk is even more minimal
@mcneely @e88 The fediverse is federated so you can speak to anyone on any other instance. An instance of one means that you don’t have to moderate anyone else, just yourself.
Take that as a core tenet and you have the #SmallWeb (which doesn’t have to use ActivityPub but could interoperate with it if desired).
@andregil yes lonely in the beginning. I need to seek out people to follow with this account
@e88 @aral maybe #GoToSocial?
@rghvdberg this looks like the one I will try. it's already packaged for #Yunohost which I already run
https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/gotosocial_ynh
thanks to all chiming in with suggestions. i hope others get inspired to host single instances or a bigger instance from your suggestions.
@e88
Epicyon is specifically designed for low resource use (I've heard of it being run on a Raspberry Pi). Pleroma is also supposed to be less demanding than Mastodon.
Of course, the protocol is called "ActivityPub", whereas "Mastodon" is the particular server software. So you're not looking for "version of Mastodon", but an alternative "federated" or "fediverse" server. Though some, like "Hometown" are forks.
Nitpicks, but it'll get you better search results to know the right keywords.
@aral
@e88 Nope. But if you hear of such an ActivityPub server, please do let me know too. I’d be very interested.