Post by @fname

Boom! Coming to you live(ish) from #littleFedi. Installation wasn’t too difficult but might cause issues for the novice user. My first go-around resulted in laggy performance for reasons that elude me. I’ve relocated everything to my Synology NAS, which is *way* underspeced vs. the machine I first had it running on, but it’s performing much better. The web interface is clean and quite customizable. And accessing it via an app is pretty seamless.

Replying to @fname

The web interface is super clean and lightweight; I could see that being a big boon to folks accessing it from old phones or low-spec hardware. #littleFedi

Replying to @fname

One feature that’s kind of unique is that the admin can create a ‘bubble’ timeline that contains only posts from a curated list of select instances. So for example, I’ve created a bubble containing known Canadian instances.

Replying to @fname
TrueNorthSpice 🇨🇦
@TrueNorthSpice @mastodon.world

@fname 🤔

@TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world
It’s quite neat, although the caveat is that not all Canadians are coming in from Canadian servers.

Replying to @fname

Another neat feature is the ability to set a ‘self destruct’ on a given post. This works outside of your global post expiry setting.

You are also able to schedule posts within the standard post edit window.

Replying to @fname
musing_sys🇨🇦
@musing_sys @social.fringesec.ca
@fname Sounds like a fairly clean implementation that can run on minimal hardware. I’ve never been fully satisfied with Akkomas implementation, but it’s worked well enough that I’ve stuck with it. It has the bubble timeline as well. I may need to spin up a littleFedi to take for a test drive

@musing_sys@social.fringesec.ca
If you want to take it for a test run, I can send you an invite to create a test account. That way you can try out the 'look and feel'.

Replying to @fname
musing_sys🇨🇦
@musing_sys @social.fringesec.ca
@fname Thanks, but I’ll wait until I have a chance to set one up in a week or so. I’m kind of weird in liking the setup bits as well