Jack Baty

littleFedi

littleFedi is "A small ActivityPub server written in Go"

It was officially released (I think) yesterday, and is another project from Stefano Marinelli of BSSG fame.

A few years ago I'd decided I wanted to "own my content" 🙄 so I ran an instance of Mastodon. Mastodon is overkill and I didn't enjoy it. Then, later, I installed an instance of Go2Social, which worked well. Trouble was, I was all-in with social media at the time and being on a single-user instance felt lonely...nothing useful in "local" or "trending". Discovery was difficult. It was just me and I didn't like it.

Fast forward to today, and things have changed. I've deleted all of my Meta-related accounts and LinkedIn. I thought about quitting Mastodon as well, but FOMO always gets the better of me.

Since I would rather not quit Mastodon completely, I figured I would try running a single-user instance again. Maybe the quiet would be good for me.

I'd seen @Stefano's posts about a new ActivityPub server he was working on and the timing of the first release couldn't be better, so I installed it today at Jack Baty Social.

It's running on my Hetzner VPS behind Caddy as a proxy. I love Caddy. Here's the entire Caddy config for the domain:

social.baty.net {
	encode gzip
	reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:8081
}

I've just started poking around, but littleFedi seems like it's got a lot going for it. At first I wanted to use my root domain for my handle (@jack@baty.net) but since I'd previously used that via Ghost, I ran into caching issues and didn't want to bother, so now I'm @jack@social.baty.net.

The big question is whether to migrate followers there, or start fresh and maybe just announce the move from my main @jbaty@social.lol account. I think I'll give it a minute before deciding.

littleFedi is a compelling new entry in the FediverseSpaceArena.