Het leuke aan de #Fediverse (waar Mastodon ook onderdeel van is) is dat er steeds nieuwe oplossingen bij komen, die aanhaken in het grotere geheel. Vaak zijn het proefballonnen en komt het merendeel niet echt van de grond.

Ben nu #littleFedi van @stefano aan het testen en kan oprecht zeggen: wow 🤯

Het zou een lichtgewicht implementatie moeten zijn en de software is nog in de testfase, maar voelt nu al beter in elkaar gezet dan Mastodon. Supervriendelijke interface, focus op de dingen die er daadwerkelijk toe doen zodat je minder ruis hebt. Gelijktijdig heeft het een geweldige optie voor kennisdeling, zoals een ingebouwde blog. Zo kun je "vlugge" posts maken (inclusief self-destruct per bericht!), maar ook zaken die je voor de langere termijn wil bewaren, opslaan als blogpost.

Veel software: 😡 🤮
littleFedi: 😍

Dit is hoe software hoort te zijn: focus, simpel, handige opties.

Helaas is het nog "invite-only", maar voor iedereen die overweegt om een eigen installatie op te willen zetten, hou littleFedi in de gaten.

Bij deze meteen een test om te zien als ik naar mijn eigen profiel link:

https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@mboelen

Just a little reminder on littleFedi's efficiency

The instance https://rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it - with my user @stefano@rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it - has been running for over a month on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD.
Under normal operation, it uses 58 MB of RAM, including caches. And it shows no signs of slowness!

#littleFedi #NetBSD #RunBSD #OwnYourData

I am playing with Visual Editor

The first time I ever used an editor like this was in Wordpress approximately 100 years ago.

I was a thinner man back then, less grey, in less pain.

I could often be hear proclaiming:

Who the fuck are you? Why have you been following me around? Is that a camera!? Are you some kind of cop!!?

In a panic I would run :

sudo rm -rf /

in an attempt to destroy all of the evidence of the crimes I had not committed.

This thing appears to be working well and I smell I really appreciate the effort that goes into something like this.

I am not much of a programmer. I studied it once at University and failed out. You can see just how bad it really is on Codeberg.

I am however really good at:

1. Breaking things
2. trying to do weird stuff
3. documenting what I did
4. explaining what I thought would happen
5. explaining what actually happened

This is important because:

• not every system is the same and software can behave unexpectedly on someone else's computer
• "idk this shit dont work" is a shitty bug

^ That horizontal rules!

The only thing that was slightly confusing was knowing when to turn the buttons off. I did have to edit the numbered and bulleted lists once because I toggled the button off too early and it unlisted the last item. Not a bug, every visual editor handles that one differently.

littleFedi media management

Are you worried that your low-power device will be overwhelmed by external media caching?

Don't worry, we've already thought of that!

littleFedi offers 4 media management options:

• "No caching, no proxying": Media is fetched directly by the user from the originating instance.
• "Proxy only mode" (like this instance): The instance proxies requests so media is always served to the user through it. The originating instance will never see littleFedi users' requests.
• "Lazy caching mode": Requests are proxied and then cached locally, so subsequent requests are served directly from the local cache.
• "Full caching mode": Similar to Mastodon, it fetches and stores media locally as soon as it is processed by the instance.

For both caching modes, you can store media locally or use an external S3-compatible service. Moving between storage types is supported natively, without needing external tools like rclone.

#littleFedi #Fediverse