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gotosocial

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Observed mentions: 2021-09-11 20:07:54 UTC to 2024-10-16 07:28:24 UTC.

0369122021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 1 submissions, 10 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC11110
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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It's turning out great, I guess. The current approach is not portable to Windows, but it works fine on Linux, macOS, BSD and illumos. In general, portability is hindered more by file locking (I hate POSIX locks) than mmap. The currently open GitHub issue is more bad default configuration than anything else. Configuring connections to use less memory by default should fix it. I already have a PR ready for the next release that also opens this up for 32-bit platforms. Also, GoToSocial (a self-hostable Mastodon alternative) moved to it (from modernc) for its first beta release. https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial
In Sqlite3 WebAssembly
> Im looking forward to a solid ActivityPub server written in Go or Rust that can run on modest hardware/small resource The "Lightweight" GoLang ActivityPub server is GoToSocial https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial The better-known lightweight servers are Pleroma and fork Akkoma, written in Elixir https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma/ Some of this info I got via: https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/110226729543740723
In I Wrote an Activitypub Server in OCaml: Lessons Learnt, Weekends Lost
I continue to see people stumble at mastodon resource requirements when setting up their instance, but I fail to understand why everyone is going for a mastodon instance for their personal use. I am running https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial on a micro instance, probably using 100M ram, with a 30M sqlite database. True, I don't have all features. It is pure backend, but I can use https://pinafore.social/ as web client and https://f-droid.org/en/packages/su.xash.husky/ as Android app. It implements a good chunk of the Mastodon API. I also use it from Emacs with mastodon.el. Took me 35 minutes to setup. It runs as a single binary from systemd. Most of the jail features enabled. Not even a system user (DynamicUser). Mastodon != Fediverse.
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