@celesteh instance running on a router in a plastic bag outside your window

https://snac-mifi.vea.st/chloe/p/-1225603012.1737666104

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Fedi Users: I can put an instance on my cat! 🥥

@celesteh if it can run DOOM, it can run a fedi instance

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😫✋ can it run doom?
😏👉 can it run gotosocial?

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@celesteh @celesteh it doesn't take 30 million, a bluesky dev made a copy of the full relay with a server costing $150/month . this is an unfair comparison, as at least one bluesky pds is currently being run on a ps4. the "save our feeds" thing is a techbro scam, basically

@celesteh someone's running a bluesky pds off a PS4

@celesteh Bonus: Fedi instance may or may not include a catgirl

Guess where I am

@celesteh the what? I dont know what to say to that.

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@celesteh thanks for explaining that so clearly 😀

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Does this make it the first Federation Shuttle?

@celesteh Bluesky is like a two sided sword for me (does this saying work like this in English?)

One one side I like it from a user perspective. It objectively has nice features like the fact that likes and comments are synced and not only partly shown like on Fedi because they’re not fully federating here. It also has those „feeds“ anyone can create, giving more timelines to the user to discover new people.

On the other hand it’s not decentralized. Sure the PDS‘ are, but the moderation service (the main one) is still centralized and can’t be turned off. So it’s not secured against them going crazy and adapting to idk USA‘s new „standards“ or something like that. The identity server that verified the DID‘s is also not decentralized.

So from a technical perspective, especially in a time where decentralization is important, Mastodon is objectively far ahead. However when it comes to adaption of non-technical users and ease of use, then Bluesky is far ahead, which explains why it gains so much more users.

For me personally Mastodon will always be my focus, but I understand non-technical users that go to Bluesky saying that engagement is better or it’s easier for them to use, etc.

@celesteh 30 million?

@celesteh That's funny, because I am literally looking to install snac2 (https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2) on the email server that I run in my car.

@celesteh not sure of this counts, but I've seen Mastodon clients running on Apple IIs!

@celesteh Bluesky, powered by crypto techbros.

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Great comparison!! Really illustrates the differences, & indirectly, the benefits, in a charming way! 🙂

dizz 👆

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@celesteh that 30 mil initiative is a scam ran by hustlers who are currently in AI but sure they wouldn't mind branching into social media if they can pocket 30 mil and do nothing for it.

@celesteh@lgbt.io 👍

Who says it?

Instead of pumping money into the next dead horse, you could use it to fund countless instances of the Fediverse.

@celesteh How long do you think it takes until Elon buys these servers? I bet its before the end of 2026

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Uhh look!
Fakenews on mastodon.
Cool cool

@celesteh A mastodon instance of my own: 6 USD per month. I think Bluessky has a key flaw. It requires Venture Capitalists to survive, and in my opinion this is not a good situation to be in.

@celesteh there's a story about a group of geeks from Mendoza traveling to Buenos Aires in two cars. Don't remember the year, but it must have been late late 90s/early early 00s. Cell data was _expensive_, including the roaming they charged when you crossed provincial lines. So they setup an AP in one of the cars and I think it was either an IRC or XMMP server and used that to coordinate.

Edit: forgot to mention: that was a 1k km (1Mm!) trip.

@celesteh@lgbt.io fedi users will put an instance in anything that contains metal

@celesteh and then:

https://masto.doskel.net/@doskel/113884312225881269

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Fedi users: I put an instance on my car!
Me: You mean insurance?
Fedi users:
Me: No, really! Insurance?

@celesteh I wonder how well activitypub deals with a node that’s only intermittently online.

Why is there now part of me that wants to throw mastodon or perhaps one of the lighter apps on a sbc/mini pc and dangle it off the end of a cellular connection to try that

@celesteh has anyone tried running an instance on a postmarketOS-phone?

@celesteh different systems have different design goals? Like… I don’t know why we’re still doing this kind of thing.

@celesteh finally a use for IoT, the fridge can host the fedi, the washing machine pixelfed, and the cats chip now has ICanHazCheezeBurger!

@celesteh can it be done on a smart watch?

@celesteh Since I first heard about the $30 million AT protocol thing, I’ve been wondering why it would take so much money. We have whole open source office suites. Photo editing software. Web browsers. Freaking OPERATING SYSTEMS. Sure, there’s corporate support behind many of them. But why $30 million? Why isn’t someone in Kyiv doing this right now?