Stefano Marinelli - littleFedi
Barista at BSD Cafe and illumos Cafe - @stefano@bsd.cafe / @stefano@illumos.cafe
Spreading weather forecasts all over the Fediverse via FediMeteo - @admin@fedimeteo.com
Testing littleFedi here on littleOne, its first instance open to outside users. Small ActivityPub server, single Go binary, still in active development.
I will also use this account to provide information about this instance and the development of littleFedi.
@sturai it seems you're clearly missing the entire right bar. this is strange. I'll perform some tests. thanks!
@joany I can confirm it works perfectly on a zone (tested it personally), even if it will use the slower compatibility sqlite driver (unless you use PostgreSQL, which is native).
@shom @fasnix @madamada Built-in backups of the database, the configuration and, optionally, local owned media, with a manifest and a restore command.
You can fully export all your contents (including posts) and re-import them into another littleFedi instance. It'll be another account with another handle, but you won't lose any of your contents. Your data stays yours.
I've received quite a few questions about the use of AI in and around #littleFedi.
So, after discussing it within the team, we've decided to update the FAQ and make our position clear.
It probably won't come as much of a surprise to those who already know me and the projects I work on. But littleFedi is reaching people who don't know me, or us, and I think it's fair to explain where we stand rather than assume they already know.
The short version: littleFedi doesn't use AI. No ranking models, no recommendation engines, no language models deciding what you see.
The longer answer, including how I approach LLMs and code contributions, is now in the FAQ:
@adam@toots.adamu.jp Of course! Your question is completely valid and makes total sense. Since I'm not the only person involved, I have the thankless task of having to explain and convince the decision-makers, whether I agree or not.
@adam@toots.adamu.jp thanks for the suggestion! The team was more oriented towards a positive approach, which is the same I usually have at BSD Cafe. Pro, not against. So saying they’re enjoying programming is a positive message. Saying “no AI here” is something different, even if the message itself is clearer. I’ll try to talk to them.
@adam@toots.adamu.jp the about page says:
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.
This is the message the team wants to send to the world. And I think it's self explanatory.
@fasnix @shom @madamada I don't know 😃 Some local automated tests show that 100 users with sqlite are fine, as long as there's not too much concurrency in writing stuff into the DB. For the public server....I don't know as well. The limit will probably be the limit of the hardware I'll be using. There's something to be fixed: blog generation will only work on single process installations, not on clustered setups. I'll probably easily adapt it to build blogs only on one specific machine (the one doing the housekeeping). Still, the blogs will finish into the local file system, so this needs to be sorted, too. But this will come later.
@fasnix No, you can convert any of your posts to blog posts whenever you want to. But you can't convert a boost into a blog post. Which sounds reasonable, I think.