Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog

Re:Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub p... by riffic on Sunday October 09, 2022 @08:10PM (#33146533)

hosting a full-blown mastodon for a single user instance is extremely overkill.

if you have access to a LAMP like your typical shared hosting provider, you could try Gnu Social or WordPress with the AP plugin.

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Re:Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub p... by johntash on Sunday October 09, 2022 @08:40PM (#33146715)

I agree, I started looking at setting up a mastodon instance and didn't get very far before looking at alternatives.

Thanks for the suggestion. I don't really want to run another Wordpress, but Gnu Social looks promising.

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Re:Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub p... by huimang on Sunday October 09, 2022 @09:04PM (#33146798)

Check out pleroma. It uses much less resources than mastodon so it’s been nice as a single user instance.

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Re:Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub p... by ConfuSomu on Monday October 10, 2022 @01:09AM (#33147986)

And GoToSocial is also a nice alternative to Mastodon

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Re:Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub p... by zimpenfish on Monday October 10, 2022 @07:33AM (#33150105)

If you want even lower resource usage, try honk[1] (currently using about 80M whilst my Pleroma is using 350M + 500M from Postgres) (although it is considerably more minimal than Pleroma...)

[1] https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk

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Re:Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub p... by huimang on Monday October 10, 2022 @01:01PM (#33153815)

I love software like that, thanks for sharing. I do worry about seems like a single-user contributor project, though. Pleroma and Mastodon have healthy amounts of contributors and activity, so I feel more comfortable about going with them.

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Re:Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub p... by zimpenfish on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @05:50AM (#33161312)

> I do worry about seems like a single-user contributor project, though.

Yeah, fair, especially when it has an, uh, esoteric code style.

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Re:Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub p... by jayknight on Sunday October 09, 2022 @10:22PM (#33147170)

Is there such a thing as a static ActivityPub timeline, something like Hugo, by compatible with Mastodon? Or is that nonsensical?

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Re:Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub p... by riffic on Sunday October 09, 2022 @10:28PM (#33147192)

There's a discussion about that here involving one of the spec authors:

https://octodon.social/@cwebber/100368138697354408

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Re:Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub p... by cxr on Sunday October 09, 2022 @11:12PM (#33147379)

It's not nonsensical. It's not doable, though, either—owing to fundamental assumptions/flaws in the protocol (where "protocol" here refers to the Mastodon-compatible implementations that are in actual [read: majority] use today).

It wouldn't take much to fix it, though, and it should be fixed. TPTB really should have focused on enabling your use case from the beginning.

Moar discussion here:

Comments for "Mastodon 3.5" (6 months ago)

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30862612>

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