@stefano are you doing anything interesting to get it out to the world from the home network?

@mensrea@freeradical.zone this one has a reverse proxy in front of it. But there will be #littleMesh that will help to interconnect instances behind nat

@stefano I desire a Pi Zero!!!
*Have,* for a long time now, haha!

@Brahvim@mastodon.gamedev.place you can use it everywhere - especially on more powerful hardware

@stefano the cable-head is almost larger than the unit; not that it's intrinsically relevant 🙏 👍

@stefano
I hope your sd card lasts longer than mine

@stefano

question:
now you have 100 MB,
but how many capacity do you have for the data?

I am asking for a friend who has a single instance too, but rented, and the costs of his rented space is exploding (he has more than 150 GB.)

@catflyhigh@troet.cafe littleFedi doesn't download, by default, all the media as Mastodon or GoToSocial do. You can just proxy the requests, so you just need the database space.

@stefano How many posts do you find if you search for <Hashtag>BloomScrolling on that instance? I get 264 posts, 18 posts today.

@stefano I would love to do that but I'm afraid of opening a PC in my local network to the wider internet. That's 100% me being clueless, though

@stefano the raspberry pi made me nostalgic for messing about with them to make less go brrrr. Love that you can do this with the fediverse! Good work

@stefano
this is awesome !

@stefano (insert "we're not worthy" meme).
You're running #LittleFedi off wi-fi? That's another impressive feat, given the challenges with higher level Pi wireless and BSD systems. The 3 is great, the 4, touchy, for me anyway.

@jspath55@chaos.social yes, on NetBSD and wifi. Sometimes it seems to randomly lose the connection, if the signal isn't that strong, so I made a script that will ping the router and, if doesn't respond, the wifi will be "down/up"

@stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it

on the one hand: awesome!

on the other hand: too many of us are stuck behind CGNATs or otherwise can't port-forward :[

@alexia@app.wafrn.net There's #littleMesh for it - https://littlefedi.org/littlemesh.html

@stefano How does it look, on the web interface? Can you show?

@miiko@social.darxxide.eu you can have a look here: https://littleone.littlefedi.social

@stefano

@stefano 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

and even more 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 just for running NetBSD in a raspberry pi.

#NetBSD #raspberrypi

@stefano This, right?

https://littlefedi.org/

@stefano "The source is not published yet. "

What prevents a release?

@f4grx@chaos.social I've clarified it here: https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@stefano/01a03902-2819-763e-bdb7-5ad6edf98dac#status-01a03902-2819-763e-bdb7-5ad6edf98dac

In short, we're fixing some stuff (thanks to the great people that are helping to test it on the first instance) and want to be sure it will federate and behave in the proper way before releasing it.

@stefano

I’m all for this kind of data center.

@stefano how do you keep the db so low? Mine is also single user and it's sitting at 15 gigabytes

@twipped@twipped.social are you also considering the media files?

@stefano I love it Stefano. Thanks forma sharing! :)

@stefano

do you have steps for how to do this at home for other people?

@RoseRaven@eldritch.cafe sure. as soon as the code will be released (approx after the 15th of September), there will be instructions. Meanwhile: https://littlefedi.org

@stefano

Does your local ISP allow you to forward port 80/443 (via proxy) to your device? Or are you connected somehow to a VPS ?

@stefano

YES! That could be a zone on my HDC and nobody would notice!

Thanks for the PoC!

@danmcd@hostux.social Tested - it works beautifully on #illumos

@stefano sweet!

@stefano Wow, congrats!!

@stefano I might set this up. I have an old pi 3b+ doing nothing 🫣

@sillydan@mastodon.world oh, that will be more than enough!

@stefano congratulations! I'm looking forward to running one too!

@stefano Can I run an instance on an esp32?? I have some
Of those hanging around

@Zahadoom@noauthority.social unfortunately not, esp32 isn't capable (enough) for littleFedi

@stefano I love this so much!

@stefano This is very interesting. I have what is likely a dumb question. What is the purpose of the memory when only handling ActivityPub traffic? Does it limit your ability to see people's images and to play posted videos?

I have been thinking about doing something similar, solar powered, here in Florida to be available during post-hurricane powerless periods.

@Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.social memory is mostly used to process data and caches. You can disable caches (but the performance will be worse, especially if using low power devices) and reduce memory use. Also, being in Go, it has a higher memory footprint than, for example, the great snac2

@stefano Here in #Canada, a crummy #RaspberryPi 4, 1GB of RAM with very basic accessories (pwr supply, MicroSD card, and cheap case) is like $200CDN, OMFG. So yeah, this project is very timely.

@d1@autistics.life you don't need a Raspberry PI for this. You can use it, but any platform is supported.

@stefano any indication of when the source will be published?

@ellie@ellieayla.net You can have more information here: https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@stefano/01a03902-2819-763e-bdb7-5ad6edf98dac#status-01a03902-2819-763e-bdb7-5ad6edf98dac

In short, it should be released after EuroBSDCon, so more or less after the 15th of September.

@0x6f486f4a@void.lgbt yes, I love NetBSD

@stefano @Lightfighter Super! Let us know when you publish, thanks.

@meltedcheese@c.im @Lightfighter@infosec.exchange sure! More information here: https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@stefano/01a03902-2819-763e-bdb7-5ad6edf98dac#status-01a03902-2819-763e-bdb7-5ad6edf98dac

@Holocene@techtoots.com yes, totally headless. I installed the appropriate image and used a serial console, then ssh only.

@stefano Network via Wifi?

@Zugschlus@zug.network wifi, at the moment

@stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it can't wait for first stable release

@stefano Cool usage of a Pi Zero W :D

@stefano 30 years ago, someone could have implemented it on 1 MB~

@vekkq@vivaldi.net probably, but without all the encryption we have today

@stefano How do you deal with file storage on it?
That looks like such a cool set-up! Do you have some links to set up?

@Firesphere@cloudisland.nz not yet, but there will be enough documentation when it will be released.
As for the storage, it supports local file system or s3. Or nothing - just proxy mode, so you just write local media and proxy remote ones .This is the best choice where space is a problem.

@stefano Wow, this is blazingly fast.

@stefano
I used to feel this stuff was only for hobbyists. I thought it was cool, but it just seemed like something interesting to do.

Now I'm starting to see that during an information crack-down it will be vital that people know how to control their own access.

@stefano
What’s the total cost-point of this? Is it in the “giftable for christmas” ballpark?

@curiousicae@tech.lgbt probably. but the point is that it's light but complete. You don't strictly need a SBC to run it, but you can.

@stefano oooooooo I'd totally run this on Solar if I had any Solar hardware

@stefano this is amazing, congrats!

@stefano

"Because we are people, and the bits are just extensions of our voice."

Well said. Your littlefedi setup is a wonderful thing.

#LittleFedi #WeOwnTheNet

@the_roamer@mastodonapp.uk thank you!

@stefano

Good luck with the testing.

Great work for small demand work

Stay fab

@StingrayBadger@zirk.us thank you! Nice picture, thank you for sharing it!

@stefano awesome

@npub1qhw9rp6sd6rse5vay329jlt6j8ll55g3k0r44cm3uadrusns0q0q9684c8@momostr.pink the faq will clarify: https://littlefedi.org/faq.html

@stefano I love this.

@stefano They’re wonderful little machines! It’s amazing how much we can do with so little energy and minimal computing resources. #NetBSD is great with modest hardware :)

Mine takes two watts, but that’s because it has ethernet. Still, I love that we can run whole servers off of small solar panels meant for charging phones.

@stefano Stellar. I’m gonna look into this now. Thanks!

@stefano

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@stefano get federated idiot :3

@stefano Don’t make me want that for me 🤣

@stefano I ran honk on Void on a Raspberry Pi for a long time, and had to use GOMEMLIMIT to keep the reaper at bay when it was under heavy load (it resized large images in posts, and several really large images in a row would squeeze memory pretty hard). Have you had any similar issues under NetBSD?

@knapjack@vivaldi.net no. But we have a "low power mode" that will lower some specific settings.

The preset selects one database connection and one queue worker, a bounded memory cache, one image decoder, a 13 million pixel bound on decoded images (enough for a 4032 by 3024 phone photo), a 1600 pixel cap on stored uploads, cheaper thumbnail resampling, and no dynamic gzip.

@stefano similar benchmark: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/getting_started/#server-vps (1-20 active users), GoToSocial will likely hover consistently between 250MB and 350MB of RAM"

@Holocene@techtoots.com GoToSocial will also reprocess (by default) all the media files, and that will use resources.

@stefano Pretty cool 👍

@stefano

All that's missing now is a #Reticulum connection

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-reticulum-unstoppable-networks-for-the-people

@stefano THIS IS GENIUS

@stefano

If we could get more people to replicate this and run their own instances it could be a game changer.

Especially as people have suggested here the fediverse is under attack from various forces, they can't close us all down.

It would also be an interesting work around for social media bans, as if under 16s are admin on their own server, they just age verify themselves, which makes the process pointless other than a box ticking exercise.

@stefano This is a beautiful reminder that the internet was never meant to be synonymous with centralized power and endless consumption. A tiny machine, a few watts, and a human voice can still create a meaningful space for connection. Perhaps decentralization is not only a technical idea, but a human one.

@stefano

Just replying, so that I can tag in the Devon and Cornwall Linux user group

@dcglug

@stefano whoop whoop

@Gargron

@stefano

@stefano rad.

@stefano add solar and battery 😋

@stefano Hi. I'm a Berlin based Australian & Devuan OS image maintainer for all models of RPi ARM hardware. Would it be possible to join your early limited access to source code, as I would very much like to demo your work on little fedi at the upcoming Berlin FediDay event https://ctix.c-base.org/fediday/fediday26/ Thanks for your work!

@stefano Is a Source code release coming?