Trev 

I'm now pondering what it would be like to run my own micro instance for fediverse content.

Whatever it is, it has to be as feature rich and as economical to run as possible.

The two best choices I can think of are Lemmy and Plemora.

Please share your insights.

Apr 29, 2025 at 2:47amWeb
Show threadMichael McCune ☮️Apr 29, 2025

@trevdev i asked a similar question a few days ago, and i've been exploring Friendica as an option. mostly because it seems like others have done this on my hosting service (dreamhost), and it seems fairly lightweight.

ymmv

https://friendi.ca/

friendica – A Decentralized Social Network

Show threadTrev Apr 29, 2025

@elmiko ahhhh PHP, that makes a lot of sense actually. I tried it something like 8 years ago and it didn't feel as polished but I can't remember why. I'll have a look.

I am also on Dreamhost.

Show threadMichael McCune ☮️Apr 29, 2025
@trevdev yeah, my php days are well behind me, but i'm willing to give it a test drive.
Show threadTrev Apr 29, 2025
@elmiko Not to offload that work onto you, but if you had follow-up feedback on it, I would like to hear it. I will remind myself to ask you
Show threadshomApr 29, 2025
@trevdev I've been running my own #GoToSocial instance since the beginning of the year. It's been a good experience and there's a tool called https://github.com/VyrCossont/slurp to import your previous public posts from a Mastodon data export (before or after migration). Happy to chat more!
Show threadTrev Apr 29, 2025
@shom GoLang, another no-brainer. Makes a lot of sense! How are you enjoying it? Edit: You did say it's been a good experience but maybe you'd like to elaborate!
Show threadTrev Apr 29, 2025
@shom Nix support is a good selling point for me too
Show threadshomApr 29, 2025
@trevdev the user experience has been excellent with phanpy as a client (it doesn't ship with a client but has a web and settings front end). The development has been fantastic with really thoughtful features and non-features, upgrading even with database migrations has been automatic and smooth. No issues with federation but I'm using relay.fedi.buzz with a second account on my instance to subscribe to hashtags. It's a bit of a workaround for not seeing all hashtags from relays showing up as boosts in my home timeline. It just works and I don't have to think about it, which is the best part.
Show threadshomApr 29, 2025
@trevdev fellow #craftering member @tdback has a Nix config you can liberate.And oh, I really I like the markdown support.
nix-config/modules/services/fediverse/default.nix at main · tdback/nix-config

One flake to rule them all [mirror]. Contribute to tdback/nix-config development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Show threadJackApr 29, 2025
I have done both #honk and #snac and can recommend both. If you're looking for features, I would recommend the latter, it works great with most clients. Either runs just fine on anything with 32-bit Raspberry Pi oomph. I have run honk under Termux on an old Android phone. Both are fun. #TeamTinyFedi