What fediverse software should I host? (jlai.lu)

submitted 2 days ago by limonade@jlai.lu to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I'm looking into hosting my personal instance of some fediverse software. I want to do it to grow my tech-literacy more than to host my own service. So I want to pick one in the fediverse, because I love the federation concept, but I'm open to a software I don't use yet.

I have made previous attempt at hosting internet services a few years ago, mainly things my teachers told me to do. It was a big failure and I mostly remember from it that I got a hard time understanding instructions given on internet tutorials or at which point what I did was different from what my classmates did :( But I want to try again and do better! 😤

I plan on hosting it on a old laptop I hope not to break completely and maby in a docker container (but I also used to have a hard time with docker)

What fediverse software would you recommend me? Is there one that is easier to install than another? Or one with more clear installation instructions?

Thanks for your advice!

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[-] florencia 1 points 1 day ago

Gonna get a lot of hate for this but if it's just a laptop then you'll have a lot more benefit to journalists/activists if you do a tor exit node. Or tor relay node. Or just an i2p node.

[-] jdw@links.mayhem.academy 7 points 2 days ago

This is probably the least painful way to get a few fediverse apps installed. There are many Mastodon type apps, Pixelfed, Lemmy and maybe more.

https://yunohost.org

[-] limonade@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago

This looks super cool. I will look at that very carefully. Thank you!

[-] asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 days ago

oh wow, their app library is huge.

[-] limonade@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It also has a lot of fediverse softwares

[-] jdw@links.mayhem.academy 3 points 1 day ago

It’s come a long way.

[-] Zak@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I've self-hosted Pleroma, Hubzilla, Mastodon, and Wordpress with the ActivityPub plugin. I found Pleroma to be the easiest of those.

I think I'd recommend Akkoma today; it's a fork of Pleroma.

[-] limonade@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago

Thank you. I will try Akkoma then.

this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2024

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