#littlefedi
Experimenting on a Friday night
🍌 My instance is running on my banana.
Yes, you read that right. 😏
As ridiculous as it sounds, it's actually true: this very instance is running on an 11-year-old Banana Pro.
And it's running beautifully!
The littleFedi experiments continue!
littleBox 2.0!
Today, a friend sold me his "old" 3D printer, and a whole new world opened up to me.
And yes, my instance just got a little prettier.
Now that #littleFedi has been released, and I can already see several instances run by different people federating with each other, this little instance feels like it's in good company.
This is a periodic reminder that this instance is running littleFedi on a Raspberry PI Zero W powered by NetBSD
When using littleFedi on mobile, I’m usually going with the PWA. I find it even better than MastoBlaster. And that means a lot!
Well, this is happening. 😃
For the first time, littleFedi is going to meet the public.
Berlin FediDay, Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, pre-release build.
Please be gentle with it.
Or don't. That's part of the test. 😄
Back to the RPi Zero W (2).
After all, the name of this instance is clear. I will probably go back to the original Zero W after updating it to NetBSD 11.0
@stefano
Now on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W - powered by NetBSD (armv7) - with an USB ethernet card, as the internal wifi seems to lock when the traffic goes up.
It's blazing fast
Oh well...
/dev/dk0 917G 587M 871G 1% /mnt/extusb
It's definitely overkill. Maybe I could cache some media, there, too.
Now on an Orange Pi One, powered by NetBSD, on an external USB drive.
Yes, the storage speed makes a difference.
Now on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W - powered by NetBSD (armv7) - with an USB ethernet card, as the internal wifi seems to lock when the traffic goes up.
It's blazing fast
...let's lower the barriers even further!
Now this instance is running on a Raspberry Pi A+ (1 core @ 700 MHz, 256MB RAM), so even less than the Raspberry Pi Zero W it was running on before.
On NetBSD, of course!
Edit: it suffers a bit. I don’t know if it’s for the lower ram or lower speed sd card or the external WiFi adapter, but it’s slower than the Zero W. Still usable, but not optimal. I’ll try with the original B and will see if / how different it is.
#littleFedi #NetBSD #RunBSD #OwnYourData #Decentralization #OwnYourVoice
@napierge@bsd.cafe @adele@social.pollux.casa @mastoblaster@mastoblaster.app thank you for mentioning me. Yes, both with #littleFedi (as a platform) and #MastoBlaster (app), we're trying to make sure the Fediverse is light on resources and accessible. You don't need tons of javascript to say "hello".
littleFedi doesn't need a Raspberry PI to run.
It can run on a Raspberry PI - and this is totally different.
Thank you, friends!
The instance held up perfectly, without flinching! I also took advantage of the surge to identify a few areas for improvement, and they've been pinned down. New patches will be rolled out over the next few days.
The release is getting closer and closer...
...and this is how it's doing, while many of you are boosting, replying, etc:
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
7745 little 35 0 620M 152M RUN 140:14 57.71% 57.71% littlefedi-armv6
Crazy, isn't it?