Stefano on littleFedi

This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance.

· #fediverse, #littlefedi, #ownyourdata

My Raspberry PI Zero W, hosting this instance, in its current position. Powered by an USB cable coming from the switch.
My Raspberry PI Zero W, hosting this instance, in its current position. Powered by an USB cable coming from the switch.

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.

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  2. @mensrea@freeradical.zone ·

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

  4. @toots@fairy.id ·

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

  6. @catflyhigh@troet.cafe ·

    @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.)

  8. @hakona@im.alstadheim.no ·

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

  10. @tjammer@mastodon.gamedev.place ·

    @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

  11. @nicholasbuzzred@masto.ai ·

    @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

  13. @jspath55@chaos.social ·

    @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.

  16. @jeroen@secluded.ch ·

    @stefano Be honest (in David Beckham voice) how is it connected? VPN/Proxy? Does it have a HTTP Proxy in front of it? As the moment your message goes out to a big instance or a few hundred, ActivityPub does like to pummel things.

    Though, might be that your code can cope with it while running there.

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