I want to host a fediverse instance but I need it to be light (limited system resources). Mastodon seems to be kinda heavy. GotoSocial is supposedly very light? (but limited on functionality?) is Pixelfed much heavier? Bonfire is built on elixir so should also be light? Akkoma? Pleroma?

Also, I need it to be engaging to people migrating mostly from IG, so I do need some bells/whistles I guess

thanks!

EDIT: The instance is supposed to be hosting a community of 100-200 people. Maybe even more in the future (in which case we would probably migrate to another server)

Having a "facebook pages" / mini website / pixelfed portfolio is very functional for the people I plan to invite.

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[–] abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@geoma Hey .. we talked on #Reddit - welcome. ¿Hablas español tambien? Great So I guess the idea would be to get some kind of requirements together.

What system resources do you have?
How important is it that your posts are IG like (that would as people say suggest pixelfed as the default option I am guesssing).

What do you mean by Mastodon feeling 'kind of heavy'? Do you mean complicated or CPU, memory, storage heavy? - Regardless of what application you are considering the second point is more about who you want to be using the instance. I would strongly recommend that you limit it to friends and family - and for that (regardless of what software you are using) - the requirements aren't huge.

I'm also going to mention @FediTips - who might be able make some suggestions but yeah .. more info please?

[–] geoma@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey! Sí, hablo castellano! Mejor que inglés. Estoy en Chile.

I do have a considerable server (16GB RAM and a nice CPU/GPU), but I am sharing this server with a bunch of other services I host with Yunohost (a couple of nextcloud instances, immich, some gancio instances, etc.,)and after trying out a lot of things and running out of RAM I am in the process of pruning and selecting resource efficient services.

I have this project https://eticadigital.cl/ and we reached a point in which we have a community and I think that if we manage to host a succesful Fediverse instance we could get the ball going by having members of our community start using it parallel to IG. These are IG oriented people that have learned and are sick of IG slop/AI/addicitive algorythms/data mining/proprietary software/etc.

It would be oh so neat if they could have something like facebook pages (A small mini "website")... Because a lot of people do need a website but won't build one and have the feeling that IG solves this need. I guess Pixelfed portfolio functionality would work.

I've just heard that, for example, for 100 users, mastodon is more resource heavy than Pixelfed? (I am thinking in terms of RAM and CPU, but mostly RAM is the main limiting factor here I guess). I don't want to limit to friends and family because I am building a community and some people are moving me to host this because they are feeling the urge

thanks!

[–] geoma@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In the past I've asked similar questions https://lemmy.ml/post/16637478