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Resource-efficient fork of Mastodon—or go for other Fediverse packages instead? (social.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking for a customizable, resource-efficient Mastodon fork. Bonfire? Rebased? Or go non-Ruby, like Pleroma (nah), Misskey Calckey, indeed, Lemmy (hui)? Any experiences?

This is part of an endeavour to host w/ a RaspberryPi & solar power. It will be a device to mess around, test, and share experiences.

Potential features:

tweaking network traffic in various ways
media options: off, auto compression, auto delete
monitoring server metrics, energy flow, sharing data through a bot
auto-off when battery low, sad emoji

Re-posting this from Mastodon w/ minor edits, because Fediverse and potential cross-interaction. I probably should have posted here first and then shared the link on Mastodon, but it's a Mastodon question, so I did it the other way around. Still not sure what's the best way to do this though.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you only want a single-user instance you can go with honk.

Right now I host it on my rpi3 under a vlan connection (1000kbps/125kbps). No struggle, 120mb in ram for an uptime of 80 days. Following nearly 40 accounts on 15 instances.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, this is a bonkers project, love it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The dev also works on a lemmy-reddit like.

It is at an extreme early stage but if you like honk you could like it too.