Post by @stefano
This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance.
It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card.
It consumes just under 1W.
Its database is this size:
-rw------- 1 little wheel 109289472 Aug 26 15:14 littlefedi.db
That is, just a little over 100 MB. Yes, MB.
Its average CPU load is extremely low.
It is perfectly usable both from the web interface and from Mastodon API apps.
I have 179 followers and 169 followings, and it doesn't bat an eye.
I promise myself to use it more, and I will.
You don't need Big Tech to communicate with others.
You don't need an expensive data center to exist online.
Because we are people, and the bits are just extensions of our voice.
EDIT: littleFedi allows to transform posts into blog posts, having its own SSG (Static Site Generator). The one generated by this post is reachable by clicking here.
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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
Thank you for the answer.
I think most of the data is his own data. So he could have this data on a separate machine and show it in littleFedi somehow without uploading it?
Sorry for asking these beginner questions.