takahe

this looks dope, I'm going to have to take a closer look now that I've heard of it. Does seem the project is in danger of being sunset unless new support comes in the way of the developer: > TLDR: I am looking for new developers and maintainers for Takahē who want to help in exchange for my mentorship, or I'll have to sunset the project. https://aeracode.org/2023/11/06/life-critical-side-projects/ The repo is still being updated so it doesn't look like it's in too much danger: https://github.com/jointakahe/takahe/commits/main/

I am actually running a Takahe instance, and it is the lightest, easiest to maintain thing I've found. Doesn't seem to like Lemmy though: https://github.com/jointakahe/takahe/issues/588

Django would need to be patched to do that, since the default SQLite provider would make it hard to do that cleanly. Here’s the relevant Takahe issue: https://github.com/jointakahe/takahe/issues/325

The book segment header links (in italic [0]) serve raw html which is probably not the intention (unless its an exercise for the reader that I've missed in my quickscan :-) The section on mobile clients seems very timely. At least one fediverse server [1] is adopting elements of htmx and it would seem that the corresponding clients would be a canonical example using this technology. [0] https://hypermedia.systems/book/part/htmx [1] https://github.com/jointakahe/takahe

The Mastodon-compatible alternative I'm looking at the most is Takahe: https://github.com/jointakahe/takahe/ Its goal is to be lightweight and able to run on low resources and serverless infra. It also supports multi-domain multi-identity. Built on Django.

Hmm.. does not look good for the non-Docker setup. The developer replied with "I am deliberately avoiding offering a non-Docker install path" and closed the issue: https://github.com/jointakahe/takahe/issues/44 Creating a non-Docker fork would then probably be an uphill battle.

Here are three specifically interesting things about Takahē: 1. The "multiple domains" feature. I'm running my own Mastodon instance right now purely so I can have my simonwillison.net domain as my identifier there (and protect myself from losing my identifier if the server I am using shuts down). This feels pretty wasteful! I'd much rather be able to point my domain at a Takahē instance shared with some of my friends, each with their own domains for it. 2. It's a Django app that's taking full advantage of the async features that have been added in the most recent releases of that framework. Async is a perfect match for ActivityPub due to the need to send thousands of outbound HTTP requests when publishing a message. And Takahē creator Andrew Godwin is the perfect person to build this because he's been driving the integration of async int

if they don't have PSQL specific queries, it might be a trivial change: https://github.com/jointakahe/takahe/blob/main/takahe/settin...