andyc Half man, half biscuit. https://yakshaving.social/@andyc/blog/ 2026-10-05T13:30:50Z I'm no stranger to self hosting Fediverse/ActivityPub applications. https://yakshaving.social/@andyc/blog/01a10c42-8baf-7df8-bee9-2b5afa779ce3/ 2026-10-05T13:30:50Z 2026-10-05T13:30:50Z Crikey, I ran Laconica back in 2009 when @evan@cosocial.ca still had a moustache.

I have also hosted GotoSocial and Pleroma. Never took the step to get Mastodon running (seemed too heavyweight, complex and intimidating).

However, I can't emphasise how different #LittleFedi is for a normal, non-technical user who has some spare hosting capacity available and just wants to install, configure a Fediverse presence and then forget about it.

Which seems precisely the design aim of LittleFedi and this quote from @stefano@bsd.cafe really resonated with me.

'What I kept wanting was something I could put on a small machine, in a corner, and then stop
thinking about. No runtime to keep current, no database server to babysit, no container stack, no
build pipeline that breaks the week I am travelling'.

https://littlefedi.org/index.html

[ PS. I received no authentic Italian pizzas for creating this post ]

]]> I should really write a proper, lengthy, detailed blog post about my experiences with #LittleFedi… https://yakshaving.social/@andyc/blog/01a10c2e-962d-770f-bfed-9a1212bcbd9e/ 2026-10-05T13:09:02Z 2026-10-05T13:09:02Z This was a LittleFedi blog post (not a conventional post). Just seeing if it appears in my timeline. It does.

If only people who wrote 48 page blog posts with 5,000 words split into 18 different posts (14/18) could understand why that (potentially valuable) content belongs in a blog post.

Again, LittleFedi makes it easy. It's a one-stop shop !

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