Lohan GunaweeraJul 30, 2023
Lohan Gunaweera

Dear all, I am making an attempt at migrating to @[email protected] and using it as my primary microblogging account. Please follow me there.

If all goes well, I will archive this account at mastodon.social.

Being on your own server is the most comforting thing these days. What can go wrong? :)

Jul 25, 2023 at 11:36amWeb
Show threadandycJul 25, 2023
@lohang @[email protected] I used to run a single user Pleroma instance. Software and documentation was good, upgrades went OK despite me knowing zero erlang. It was a little lonely though as the Local timeline is just you.
Show threadLohan GunaweeraJul 25, 2023
@andyc @lohang These days I feel overwhelmed by the number of posts and boosts in my home timeline. I think I'll be content with my existing network and what they re-share for a while. If I feel ready to expand at a later stage, the "federated network" should be large enough by then.
Show threadghostdancerJul 25, 2023
@lohang @[email protected]
Followed and added to identiverse list.
Show threadLohan GunaweeraJul 25, 2023
@ghostdancer @lohang Ah, the good old identiverse <3
Show threadmorphJul 25, 2023
@ghostdancer Oh yes ... @lohang has to be added to my list as well. It's called StatusNet though.
Show threadLohan GunaweeraJul 25, 2023
@morph @ghostdancer my identica/StatusNet list is called "old fedizens" :D
Show threadmorphJul 25, 2023
@lohang
@ghostdancer Old? ... pfff 🙄
Show threadLohan GunaweeraJul 30, 2023
@lohang I am happy to report that the migration to Pleroma has been a success :) The new server is running really well. Many thanks to those who make #yunohost, making #selfhosting easy for the rest of the world.

#Pleroma seems to be incredibly resource efficient! It is still running on a 16 GB VPS with just 1GB of RAM.

The contact import did not go as well as I expected. Only a 1/3 of my follows were imported. I will be adding the rest of you manually over the next few days.

Even though I am more comfortable with Mastodon's four column layout, I can certainly get used to the default Pleroma frontend. I don't want to install anything that was not included in the default installation yet. Later I will give Bloat (a javascript-free front-end) a try. Most importantly, I can continue to post from the familiar mobile app Fedilab.
Show threadmorphJul 30, 2023
@lohang For multi column interface on desktop check out @sengi_app ... works for Pleroma.
Show threadLohan GunaweeraJul 30, 2023
@morph Awesome! I will check it out :) @sengi_app
Show threadLohan GunaweeraJul 30, 2023
@morph Hello from @sengi_app

o/
Show threadmorphJul 30, 2023
@lohang Hey Ho from Fedilab! o/
Show threadzbleskJul 30, 2023

@[email protected] @lohang would you be willing to share some stats after you've been using it for a while?
I'm most interested in memory footprint.

I run plenty of services on a single server, because it's just me using most of them. But I can't predict how much of a resource strain the federation causes.

Show threadLohan GunaweeraJul 30, 2023
@zblesk I'll be happy to share. At the moment all I have is Pleroma and weechat on this server. I don't think I'll be deploying anything else here except a small static website.
Show threadzbleskJul 30, 2023

@lohang thanks!
I'll check out what weechat is.

Do you run them in docker?

Show threadLohan GunaweeraJul 30, 2023
@zblesk weechat is just a small IRC client that I run remotely so I can stay connected to IRC uninterrupted. No, I don't use docker here. Pleroma was deployed on yunohost. I find it easier to manage things that way (see https://yunohost.org).

An old school sysadmin could have done it on vanilla Debian. I am just a normal user who wants to selfhost things :)
YunoHost: garden your own piece of the Internet!

YunoHost is a system that installs itself on a server and allows you to install and maintain - with very little technical knowledge - digital services (apps) that you control.

Show threadLohan GunaweeraAug 1, 2023
@lohang I sometimes see a sudden rise in RAM use. I even got a couple of alerts from the diagnosis tools saying that there's only 20% of RAM left. It was not anything particularly alarming. But I decided to upgrade this server's RAM to 2GB, so I can mind my business without worrying about running short of resources.
Show threadالتنينوكسAug 2, 2023
@[email protected] @lohang Hello lohang. How is migration doing? What were you able to migrate?
Show threadLohan GunaweeraAug 2, 2023
@dragnucs It went really well, and I like it here!

Like I said before in this thread, the contact import did not work well. I am yet to follow the rest of them manually.

(Let me click that button right now and follow you ... done!)

:)
Show threadالتنينوكسAug 2, 2023
@lohang So what has been migrated then? If it is not following/followers and posts?
Show threadLohan GunaweeraAug 2, 2023
@dragnucs I - LohanG - migrated to a new instance, my own #selfhosted place. I am the person who migrated :)

About 1/3 of my follow list has been imported. Something must have gone wrong either with my export from Mastodon or the import to Pleroma. I am okay with adding the rest of it manually.

The posts cannot be moved because they are bound to the address of origin and copied to many other instances from there. Those who followed me at the old address will have to follow me here. There is no way to automate that part.