Another step closer to release!
The official website is now live at https://littlefedi.org/ with documentation and project details.
Take a look and let me know what you think!
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@stefano Is this different from snac? Do they do the same thing or am I mistaken?
@stefano I don’t have a use case for it, but I love the ethos, growability (for lack of a better word) and operations focus. I’d love to see more software like this.
"Pages are rendered on the server. Posting, reading, settings and moderation all work with scripting off, and the composer keeps its plain textarea fallback."
Come to my arms! 😁
"Pages are rendered on the server. Posting, reading, settings and moderation all work with scripting off, and the composer keeps its plain textarea fallback."
Come to my arms! 😁
@stefano@bsd.cafe I like the layout of the site and colours. Still going through it as there is a lot to take in :>
Kudos and thank you for making all this.
the blog feature is really nice! I really like the whole idea.
Since you also run a lot of #snac - what was your decision to create one more lightweight server implementation? Nothing wrong with that but I'd like to know where you see strengths, differences... whatever comes to your mind comparing the two. Thanks!
CC: @stefano@bsd.cafe
@andi I haven't created it but I've been involved in the project and accepted to join the team.
Snac is great and I think it's the right way to produce software: minimal, without any specific dependencies and lightweight.
littleFedi is a little different. It aims to be good on low end hardware but it's more bloated, as it is in go and depends on some libraries. Still, I think it's doing great on low power hardware. It also aims to have a broader support of features, despite staying minimal, so it's more like a "young Mastodon" than snac.
And the blog feature can be really appreciated.
So snac is still (and will be) my first choice for projects and to stay minimal. littleFedi will be another great choice for other things. All in all, they help to avoid monoculture so they're great.
Damn, this might become my go-to if I ever properly poke at ActivityPub dev again. It looks super good, and I'm a sucker for a single-binary webapp!
@ducky.ws if you meanwhile want to test it, I can send you an invite code for the "test" instance
Oooh, that'd be brilliant! You'd have to send a code to my fedi: @wafrn.ducky.ws@bsky.brid.gy (@ducky@app.wafrn.net)
@stefano Bookmarked.
I will be following with interest as the idea of having my own instance running on one of my Raspberry Pi 5s is something I have been thinking about for a while.
Or a more private non-federated set up so my offspring can use it to chat with their local group of friends.
@stefano Nice looking project. And great that you, just like snac, care about the option for people to be able use minimal and small hardware as server and also think about others who may have slow Internet connection or prefer minimal. 
![There is one preset for constrained machines. Set low_power = true and littleFedi picks one database connection, one queue worker, one image decoder, a bounded memory cache, a 13 million pixel ceiling on decoded images, a 1600 pixel cap on stored uploads, cheaper thumbnail resampling and no dynamic gzip.
low_power = true
[media]
cache_remote = "off"](https://todon.eu/system/media_attachments/files/117/076/625/071/530/063/original/dceed7933a7bcc4e.png)
@stefano the site looks kinda like ai made
@stefano @dalem "<x> <thing1>, <x> <thing2>, <x> <thing3>" in the text reads as an LLM-tell these days (eg "No runtime to keep current, no database server to babysit, no container stack, no build pipeline"). Because, of course, LLMs were trained on text authored by people that used this construction.
@kjv @dalem @wideshut it's "modern web design". That's why the LLMs are using it - because it's what people want now. So it's become one of those "it's a LLM" signature. Personally, my idea of web site is a little different, but I didn't do that.
It reminds me the em dash. I've been using them for many years, but I had to stop otherwise people will think it's AI stuff.
Not AI slop. Just my own genuine, bad production 😆
@stefano
> The official website is now live at https://littlefedi.org/
I just skimmed a bit of the overview. This sounds amazing
How is LittleFedi similar and different from Epicyon, for example, which has broadly similar goals, as it was designed to add ActivityPub support to LibreServer.
Also, is any of the code auto-generated, or is it all handrolled the old-fashioned way?
@strypey @bob "In a period where it is fashionable to boast about the dozens of AI agents doing things on your behalf, we are the Little Computer People.
We are people who love doing things with our computer, who treat it as an instrument of creativity, of expression, of life. Of friendship, of play, of letting off steam, of sharing."
Epicyon is great, and more similar to snac. littleFedi has a different purpose - being complete, while still being minimal and self-host able also on low end SBC
No auto-generated code then. What a breath of fresh air!
@stefano
> being complete, while still being minimal and self-host able also on low end SBC
... sounds like Epicyon to me. LibreServer too is designed for DYI hosting, on any consumer hardware with a permanent net connection (with or without a fixed IP). What am I missing?
@stefano
> The official website is now live at https://littlefedi.org/
I just skimmed a bit of the overview. This sounds amazing
How is LittleFedi similar and different from Epicyon, for example, which has broadly similar goals, as it was designed to add ActivityPub support to LibreServer.
@stefano the website lags on firefox on my phone, which generally doesn't inspire me much confidence in the efficiency of the software
@SRAZKVT Firefox on Android isn't efficient with some css transitions, so I've just removed them. Could you please try it again and tell me if it's better? Thank you for your feedback!
