RE: https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@stefano/01a1e02e-ddea-7f6f-80a8-b4d502d09bb9
Your own Fediverse instance. Plug and play.
Stay tuned!
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@stefano That’s so cool. I had this fantasy for a long time. An instance you could just buy. 1 to 10 users max. A family / home thing.
All seems impossible because of all the blocking on home connections until I saw the Lighthouse part of Littlefedi and now it all starts feeling like a coherent system.
This could really be kind of revolutionary. Maybe the remaining question would be how to handle backups (for non techies ).
@santi I've already covered that part. An USB device (pendrive, ssd, etc). The box system will ask and encrypt it, using restic to keep incremental backups. In case of emergency, you can reset everything, put the USB key, insert the encryption code and - profit - everything will be back from the backup. Just keep the stick connected and it will backup regularly, using the littleFedi internal backup and restic.
It's already tested and working. Similary, it already works also on NetBSD.
This is interesting. Though in my experience it will only be of use for self hosting. Is that correct? My concern would be that if you are federating at a substantial rate, such as my Friendica Instance on a VPS which federates with over 62,00 nodes with over 20 million users then the bandwidth of a home ISP would fail rather quickly. The same is true for a website hosting account versus a VPS deployment. Any feedback would be appreciated.
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@unusnemo Yes, self hosting. The instance will receive posts only from people you're following, so it won't be a problem. The number of received posts, for a single user instance, will always be quite small (unless you're following ten of thousands of accounts - but that's another issue)
@stefano and without ai. you should advertise it more.