Post by @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk
https://littlefedi.org/index.html
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk Mine has been running for a week now, no complaints so far! It's fast and responsive, looks great and does all I need it to do. It's also not using up very much disk space, which is one of the main reasons I wouldn't want to run Mastodon myself.
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk
love it!!! I still have a mastodon account but this is my main instance!
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk Yes. I'm all in on #LittleFedi. Turns out I really enjoy managing my own self hosted, single user instance. I deleted my previous Mastodon presences. Couple of minor irritations but no deal breakers
- Tusky on Android is unreliable so I use the excellent Web UI which includes the Admin screens.
- I can't follow folk on micro.blog, tags.pub or bsd.network. I suspect this is API incompatibility but that may improve.
The performance and low resource requirements are already covered but the LF documentation is comprehensive and excellent.
Plus we've already had one patch release so far!
@andyc @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk More things I like:
- Writing posts in Markdown.
- Bubbles. I created a UK focused timeline.
- Upgrades. Simply download and drop in the new Go executable. Done.
- Tailing the LF log file.
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk I like it! There's a few little quirks here and there but it's only had two releases. I seem to be able to contact all networks I typically talk to without a problem.
I'm keeping my GTS and snac instances online for a while for the forseeable future, if only for backup purposes.
Snac has been very useful to have around regardless as in times when I've had to migrate and/or restore from backup snac has been the quickest to get back on line, GTS database restores have just taken a while. In theory, #littleFedi, for which I'm using SQLite, should be pretty quick to get going too - we may see at some point in the future!
@justine@snac.smithies.me.uk oh, OK. I've not had those experiences myself... I have been able to follow your littlefedi instance from both my littlefedi and my GTS. Not seeing any errors in my logs for that.
The same external IP shouldn't be an issue I don't think as instances shouldn't really care about that (unless there's rate limiting I guess)