I left Twitter because it sucked and had become a Nazi bar, but I did miss the firehose of information that Twitter had once been. That’s how I stumbled into the Fediverse. Think Twitter, but distributed in the same way that email servers are distributed, everyone has their own domain. I spun up an instance using Pleroma, because Mastodon was way too resource intensive, I’ve been paying for a virtual private server (VPS) for years now, hoping that someone would come to my party. No one really did, which is a shame. Maybe it was my domain name not being appealing enough. I moved to Akkoma, a fork of Pleroma because it was less TERF-y than Pleroma was. Now I have gone to LittleFedi, a single file, low resource Fediverse server. It is frankly, amazing. Did it take me an afternoon to setup as a reasonably capable linux user? Yes. I had to mess around with my DNS, but I can now shut down my paid hosting for hosting at home on a PC that cost me $72 and sits in the corner of my study. I have also set up a Fediverse presence for this blog, you can follow @Joseph@antijoe.com and get all my posts directly to your timeline if you are so inclined. This blog is also self-hosted. I’m using Yunohost as the underlying architecture, and honestly, it makes life a lot easier, even with its quirks. So if you have an old PC gathering dust, a free operating system like Debian linux, and you could be on your way to data independance.
