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Setting up my own instance of Mastodon using the docker compose configuration was straightforward.
Started in Proxmox on my beefy server; I just got a 2nd Mac Mini (2012 Core i7) for much better power efficiency and we'll see how it runs there for a while, alongside Plex. Not quite ready to move over but soon!
For fun, here's the power usage of the rack, easy to see the 1U server. đ ⥠Almost solar powered but not quite installed yet so watching efficiency. #homelab #selfhosting #server
Last oneâdescribing an example of the kind of user experience this enables. I.e. you post some photo, someone wants to link that to their content with some comment. You can do that and each end links to the other, even though theyâre on different servers. Neat.
Lol @ NDA
Anyway, ideas are only worth what you actually do with them. Iâm proud of what Zenphoto became, and others did the real work of figuring out how to make federation actually work, which is way harder than ideas in a notebook!
The part that was most interesting was definitely the networking and connection between instances, so I kept coming back to it. This is all about the relationship between your private data and the public âversion.â I thought, maybe all of your data is in one place, and you just choose whatâs shared/federated.
I think I wrote this all up while camping in Yosemite, Tuolumne meadows A loop by the river. Amazing what nature will do for a clear head and creativity.
Fun one: I was preparing for a world where everything is connected and fast. We werenât there in 2005, but we were going to be. The iPhone didnât exist yet, but it was clear that something would be always connected all the time even then.
I spent a whole page thinking about offline use but eventually decided, it wouldnât be needed in the long term. Maybe we just⌠wait for that.
Hereâs where it gets wild. All about ânetworkingââI was thinking about the concept of computer networking but applied just to content, and described basically federated content between different instances. In a way that probably would have worked!
The diagram is cool, noscope there is Joen at https://moc.co, who I originally worked with on Zenphoto themes and design. Heâs still kicking around working on Wordpress.
Anyway, I couldnât drop this idea that if you had this content self-hosted, it should still be able to talk to everyone elseâs self-hosted stuff. And each server can have its users and permissions and own its stuff (sound familiar?!)
A neat idea (still interestingâŚ) is there should be some shared library or common core that these web services can all use. Like, if you want comments on everything, each webOS app shouldnât have to re-implement comments.
I found my old notebooks outlining a federated âwebOSâ. Something you run on your own server, or use a friendâs or familyâs.
This was in 2005 when Zenphoto was just spinning up. Zenphoto was âjustâ a simple photo gallery app, but it was self-hosted at a time the trend was to move everything to Big Services. It had a simplicity and social features like comments. And eventually more than just photos.
I started to think about all the installs out there, and how they could talk to each otherâŚ
Ah yeah, pics. Finally got it all connected after a few months in the new place. Forgot how great it sounds!
Dynaco ST-70 modded with VTA driver board, running NOS Amperex Bugle Boy 12AT7 into Ruby EL34s
Audible Illusions Mini Mite I with vintage Amperex 12AX7s and NOS Mullard ECC88s.
Pro-Ject Debut Carbon DC Esprit
NHT Model 1.1 bookshelf speakers, found on side of road and restored. đ
