Imagine a world without platform lock-in, where no ban or billionaire could take down your social network. That’s what ActivityPub has planned.
Imagine a world without platform lock-in, where no ban or billionaire could take down your social network. That’s what ActivityPub has planned.
It already has for me. Most websites I visit today I run myself. How amazing is that?
It’s the digital equivalent of off-grid living. I love how much useful tooling I can host myself on my little cluster, and it is empowering that $megacorp can’t hold it hostage or shove hostile tracking and advertising everywhere. The Fedeverse feels much closer to the spirit of the internet in its infancy.
Is that cluster on a cloud service though?
Nope, servers in the basement!
What kind of hardware are you running? I suspect a raspi with an SDD would be plenty for a single user Lemmy instance.