Hello from littleFedi 👋

This is the official account for littleFedi.

littleFedi is a lightweight, efficient and Mastodon-compatible platform for the Fediverse.

The idea behind it is simple: software should adapt to the machine and the community, not the other way around.

littleFedi can run on modest hardware, but it is not designed only for small machines. The same approach is meant to scale with you, from a tiny personal instance to a larger community.

Our priorities are:

• Efficiency, without unnecessary resource usage
• Simplicity, both for users and administrators
• Interoperability, with the wider Fediverse
• Accessibility, including a usable no-JavaScript baseline
• Control, because your instance should remain yours
• No AI features, no magic black boxes, just predictable software and transparent algorithms

The project is still evolving, and we are deliberately taking the time to test federation, scalability and the rough edges before calling it ready.

This account will be used for releases, development updates, technical notes, demos and everything related to littleFedi.

🌐 https://littlefedi.org

🧪 Demo: https://littleone.littlefedi.social

Small footprint when you need it. Room to grow when you need that too.

Welcome to littleFedi.

#littleFedi

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

#littleFedi #littleOne #OwnYourData #Fediverse

"When Hunga Tonga erupted underwater in 2022, it fired so much water vapour into the upper atmosphere that it measurably increased the total amount of water in the stratosphere, and scientists are still tracking how it may nudge the climate for years."

https://scienceblog.com/k-when-hunga-tonga-erupted-underwater-in-2022-it-fired-so-much-water-vapour-into-the-upper-atmosphere-that-it-measurably-increased-the-total-amount-of-water-in-the-stratosphere-and-scientists-are-stil/

#ScienceBlog #Science #HungaTonga #Atmosphere #Stratosphere #GreenhouseGas #Earth #Environment

Until we realign our society with people rather than profit, all these people-eating machines will keep eating people

Hansen told me that, for the next 19 years, she avoided the subject of fluorochemicals with the same intensity with which she had once pursued it. She focused on raising her kids and coaching a cross-country ski team; she worked a variety of jobs at 3M, none related to fluorochemicals. In 2002, when 3M announced that it would be replacing PFOS with another fluorochemical, PFBS, Hansen knew that it, too, would remain in the environment indefinitely. Still, she decided not to involve herself. She skipped over articles about the chemicals in scientific journals and newspapers, where they were starting to be linked to possible developmental, immune system and liver problems. (In 2006, after the EPA accused 3M of violating the Toxic Substances Control Act, in part by repeatedly ­failing to disclose the harms of fluorochemicals promptly, the company agreed to pay a small penalty of $1.5 million, without admitting wrongdoing.)

— Sharon Lerner, "Toxic Gaslighting How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe"

The scale of harm reported in Lerner's story is overwhelming 😳

As though it's not enough to be learning that PFAS chemicals are harmful and everywhere, we learn that the executives of the company making the stuff had a pretty good idea it wasn't good for us or the environment—in the '70s—but decided to keep making it anyway. For profit.

Again.

This isn't a problem that can be fixed by changing any one company. They're all like this. Every for-profit corporation on the planet will eat you and your family and everyone you know, for profit. Some rich assholes will have signed the order while thinking of nothing more than how much richer they'll be after their people-eating machine eats more people. That's the nature of this beast. Until we realign our society with people rather than profit, all these people-eating machines will keep eating people.

You are people.

If you would rather not be eaten, and you think it's generally a bad idea to make people-eating machines in the first place, then you, my friend, are an anti-capitalist.

Welcome.

We have a lot of work to do.

#ProPublica #Journalism #3M #PFAS #AntiCapitalist