little shom Fedi: @shom@gts.shom.dev Web: shom.dev https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@shom/blog/ 2026-08-09T03:46:47Z Big hopes for littleFedi https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@shom/blog/fc7daae4-8c57-46fb-b6d5-494e7c343fd5/ 2026-08-09T03:46:47Z 2026-08-09T03:46:47Z This was originally posted on my blog.

The Fediverse is exciting, I've formed genuine connections with interesting people. GoToSocial got me hosting my own presence. And I hope littleFedi is what gets to hosting a community.

Thoughts/context on Fediverse

The federated universe (Fediverse) is awesome: different applications, networks, sub-cultures all able to interact with each other via a rather lightweight protocol, ActivityPub. It's this very lightweightness is interesting because not all the servers are architected to be lightweight because they are architected to scale. There's a lot of debate about the role of centralization, discoverability, "flagship" instances this post isn't that. BUT, decentralization is a big selling point of ActivityPub and being able to run many small instances on low power hardware democratizes participation. I'm all about that, GoToSocial fits the bill perfectly and I have been very happy hosting it and the team is doing great and thoughtful work.

Why am I excited about littleFedi!?

Well maybe it's a better idea to talk about what is littleFedi is?! I'll let @stefano talk about that: littleFedi: a Fediverse Server That Doesn't Need a Data Centre. That blog is actually served directly by littlFedi and the post was created as any other regular post AND the blog is statically served AND a regular post can be retroactively turned into a blog post AND it supported threaded comments (since it also remains a regular ActivityPub post). littleFedi has a load of other great features as well and I don't want to take away from that but this is definitely what sets it apart from GoToSocial.

Blogging vs Microblogging

Blogging and maintaining a separate social feed is difficult. The ability to do it all in one platform and also convert existing posts into blog posts if they need to be persisted as a "body of work" is great for folks who don't want to mess around with tech and just want to share with their community. Also it's cognitively easier to write a series of posts instead of sitting down to write a blog post and being able to convert it later is great.

What's next?

I'm on the test instance and have been doing some testing and providing feedback. Stefano is both very prompt and gracious in receiving feedback and fixing issues. The project will be released as a MIT licensed self-hostable application and I plan on trialing a niche community hub (more on that later) using littleFedi. I wish the project well and will be following it closely and eagerly.

"Screenshot of littleFedi default teal and black theme showing a social post with nested comments and likes and boosts metadata

Same post as a static blog" alt="The same content has been rendered into a distinct blog interface and the comments from the fedi post are displayed as nested blog comments.

]]> Algorithm is math not magic https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@shom/blog/da060bac-dd4e-4552-9967-ce18b9a6307c/ 2026-08-08T19:01:36Z 2026-08-08T19:01:36Z Wonderful example of how to surface information to an user while respecting their privacy, with transparency, and still providing a self-curated experience.

Edit: what happens if I turn a quote post into a blog? Also, did it spam everyone with a notification of an edit? (Sorry, but testing account gotta be testing)

]]> Blogging via micro-blogging https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@shom/blog/1ad99f9c-2c9a-47d2-80fa-04399dc477d5/ 2026-08-07T17:03:35Z 2026-08-07T17:03:35Z Blogging and maintaining a separate social feed is difficult. My primary interest is to be able to do it all in one platform and also convert existing posts into blog posts if they need to be persisted as a "body of work".

Current state

Currently, I end up copying and pasting that into a blog post, but that's a bit of friction.

Desired state

The idea is that if you end up writing a series of posts and it becomes something that is more meaty and has some value for longevity it can be persisted by simply changing the post type to a blog, after the fact.

Rationale

it's cognitively easier to write a series of posts instead of sitting down to write a blog post.

]]> I want to test a threaded post which can then be converted to a blog post. This is the first one. https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@shom/blog/809a9d02-da92-4206-b956-1a60f86ca1b3/ 2026-08-07T16:55:31Z 2026-08-07T16:55:31Z I want to test a threaded post which can then be converted to a blog post. This is the first one.

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