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@stefano@littleone.littlefedi.social fantastic!
From the effort everyone involved has already put in I was sure something like this may be in the works!
Great job!
@tofeo@mstdn.social take a look at the docs at https://littlefedi.org
For a single instance it's real easy to set up, even on a cheap VPS. I think @stefano@littleone.littlefedi.social even tested/uses it on a 1€ per month VPS.
The only real criteria is you will probably need knowledge of how to set up a reverse proxy and how to get TLS certificates (letsencrypt is fine) but other than that it's really simple.
@greylinux@mylittlefedi.capella-ember.uk Alpine linux is still a great base! I have an alpine system running Immich and Frigate.
FreeBSD jails are just so useful, and being able to snapshot them through ZFS so you can ship the entire thing off to another server for backup or recovery reasons is just brilliant.
I have ZFS on Alpine too for the same reasons.
@chadmccullough@bsd.cafe yep, quite easy indeed - so long as you have some knowledge of reverse proxies and TLS certs it can be done in a few minutes, especially if using SQLite
I couldn't get the littleFedi init process working with postgres - it doesn't seem to ask for db details, and refuses to work if you put them in the config file (as it won't overwrite the file). Perhaps I missed something there, but I'll give a migration a go at some point
@greylinux@mylittlefedi.capella-ember.uk yeah, I should have realised it much sooner, and in fact I did check hairpin NAT but failed to remember I recently put my fedi stuff on a different VLAN!
I have gotosocial, snac, honk and now littleFedi all on the same hardware but in FreeBSD jails.
HAProxy runs on a separate machine.
@greylinux@mylittlefedi.capella-ember.uk yes, but only from my main vlan I.e. main vlan hairpin nat to fedi vlan was fine.
This is now fedi vlan to fedi vlan and I needed to just put that in place.
So far #littleFedi has been great!
Easy to set up with SQLite and just get going really quickly and uses a really tiny amount of resources - great stuff!
Had a little problem federating with my other instances, but that was my fault - I didn't have hairpin NAT in place from and to the VLAN they're all on 🙄
Seem to be having another issue with switching to notifications in Tusky crashes the app, but that'll get ironed out I'm sure.
I'd probably also like to switch to postgres at some point (preference not technical) - hopefully there'll be a migration here, otherwise I can probably hopefully migrate manually. If not, so be it - I shall remain on sqlite.
No other concerns to report right now! All is well.
Right, after tinkering with my brand new #littleFedi instance for a little bit, I'm going to bed.
Sorry for all the follow requests and thanks to all who have followed back!
Be good now!
Sorry to all who have a new follow from me - it is me, @paul@notnull.space
New #littleFedi account here, so far going very well!