@himysyed Hey @himysyed @fasnix I'd be happy to help. There's a bit of stuff to know for me to give you the best / easiest way to get things going.
- What VPS do you use?
- Do you have other services on the VPS?
- Do you have a reverse proxy like caddy/nginx?
- Do you have to use a web front end to setup anything on the subdomain besides an IP for the DNS entry (like certificates)?
Answer as many of these as you can and we can get it figured out from there. I'd be happy to do a remote / chat session as well. But at the end of it I request both of you write a post (and blog!) about your experience so it can help others coming from your perspective. Let me know!
@littlefedi_official exciting times! I do expect to have edge case bugs and issues and happy to test and work through that. I'm curious if at this point in time you would recommend installing on a subdomain that is intended to be a long-term home or a test subdomain. Basically, is there a way to recover and backup the keys reliably so the subdomain doesn't become unusable. Great work team, happy days!
The world's slowest build thread continues!
I laid-out the mortises (holes) for the second bowtie and tried a couple different techniques. With my current skill level the best approach was to
- double-sided tape stick down the bowtie
- mark around the edges with a marking knife angled in
- then make a chisel line a ⅛" (3 mm) inside the knife line
- hog out (remove material) the middle in a few passes with a router
- cleanup the edge with a chisel from the chisel line
- finally go to the knife line and chisel down to get a clean edge (2nd and 4th photo, left side of the bowtie was this process and it came out very clean)
I flattened with a router for the bulk height removal but then went ham with a hand plane. This project is really making me much more comfortable with hand tools. They absolutely require more of a feel (skill) but it's very rewarding.
Look at the shaving in the third photo, that's where the walnut and maple meet and the fit was so tight and the plane was so consistent and thin I got a shaving with both woods in one ribbon. Very satisfying! The last photo is a glamour shot that only showcases the nicest bit.
As promised, the littleFedi source code will become publicly available in about a week.
We will publish a snapshot of the complete source tree, together with some basic instructions to build and run it. Pre-built binaries will also be provided.
This will not yet be a proper littleFedi release. Documentation still needs work, testing needs to be expanded, and several things need to be cleaned up before we can call it that.
But the important part is that the code will finally be out there.
People will be able to read it, build it, experiment with it, start using littleFedi..
Over time, development will progressively move to the BSD Cafe Forgejo, where we will have the usual tools for issues, contributions, releases and collaborative development.
We're not quite there yet.
For now, the first step is simple: open the doors and let people get their hands on the code.
About one more week.
@stefano official account! I missed it, I'll follow it. Thanks and sorry for pinging you. This is exciting!
@stefano I hope you and friends had a wonderful time at BSD conference (I'm becoming BSD curious, great community and native ZFS FTW)!
This is a gentle ask, not a rush; I am itching to try littleFedi for a fedi community I'm trying to stand up. I have a personal goal of getting it off the ground by end of year. Does that seem realistic for the team's current thoughts on when source and self-hosting would be available? Good things take time to bake, I want to align my expectations. Cheers for all the great work and community building!
@stefano great step towards the public release of the code, good luck @vortex@tldr.nettime.org and thanks for kicking the tires. Excited to give it a spin soon™️!
For the first time, littleFedi will be shown publicly
And I have to say, this makes me very happy. :)
A pre-release build will be running on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W at Berlin FediDay, where people will be able to see it, try it, play with it, and probably abuse it a little too.
Unfortunately I won't be there in person, because I'll be at EuroBSDCon that same weekend.
But really, what better place than FediDay for the first public appearance of littleFedi?
A huge thanks to @vortex@tldr.nettime.org - Adam - for taking this on, building the demo, testing it independently, and agreeing to respect the temporary source embargo while we complete the last checks before the public release.
I'm especially curious to see how littleFedi behaves once it's in the hands of people who didn't build it.
This is exactly the kind of test I was hoping for.
More details about the presentation:
https://ctalx.c-base.org/fediday-2026/talk/review/AJNLVMPYRSVX3JDHDHYSEZZNSP9KQSYH
Quote post into a Blog Post
I have a woodworking build thread on my GtS account that would be awesome as a blog post. Another reason why I think making a thread into a single post would be a good use case. I made the last post about this into a blog post. Now I'm trying a quote post as a blog post to see what that does.
Oh yeah I forgot I tried this. I still think it would be good if the quoted post was linked from the generated blog. Also it would be nice to get a reminder to add a heading when checking the blog post checkbox so the post title isn't the truncated post body. I'll write up some feedback properly later. I'm just sleep procrastinating now.
I love long shadows and light that makes mundane things pretty.
@stefano nice to have a timeline for release, looking forward to poking at the self hosted instance, reporting, and maybe even contributing (probably beyond my very rudimentary Go skills). Good luck team!
@fasnix definitely wouldn't want littleFedi to be a copy just a really good profile viewing experience. Having the fillers is great and being able to control them via url params is fantastic if someone wants to link their profile from another site (like a blog or another social media platform) so just their posts are shown on visit. This is great stuff!
@pluvialgeist @stefano
@pluvialgeist @stefano #phanpy handles this very nicely with Replies, Boosts, Media, and featured hashtags. Example profile (and baby goats): https://phanpy.social/#/mastodon.social/a/108194428751240116
Also the dev actively encourages other clients and platforms to use the UI/UX concepts from Phanpy. Boost carousel and the way notification grouping is handled truly elevates my whole fedi experience!
Pulling up my own comments from the thread
clearly they're trying to hide their shame. Why are you doing something you're ashamed of, choose not to or don't be ashamed and stand by it.
If you think the technology is so great, stand behind it and disclaim, rather proclaim, your use. WILD!
@pluvialgeist yeah it's great and the developer, Gus, is on the fedi and shares excellent information on color science.
What does quoting a GoToSocial post with a photo and link look like? Also, Saulala is cool, check it out.
@stefano @shom@gts.shom.dev but I doubt you're swapping between SBCs and VPSs at your job. If you are, that's super cool. And either way, this is an excellent scaling demonstration!