Has anyone written a single-person Mastodon server? https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-basic-activitypub-server/ seems like it would be the kernel of such a thing, and takes the right approach where since there's only one user you can hardcode a bunch of stuff. I feel like "here's five PHP files that use SQLite, put them in a folder in your webspace and now you're on Mastodon and can follow people and send posts" would be nice, and avoid server overload problems, but I don't know if it's that simple. https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/100254678717223630
@sil There are lighter microblogging software for the Fediverse. Pleroma would be one of them I believe. There are many one-person Pleroma instances.
@trinsec ah, sure, but they're not *required* to be one-person; they're just only *used* by one. I'm thinking here of something which doesn't have user accounts or signups at all; it's single-person by design. That would make it loads easier to install and deploy, because I'm not sure it even needs a database at all (just flat files), and hopefully it would make it a lot easier to write! It's essentially "use a blog as an activitypub server"...
@sil But if it's specifically for one person, I'd not even consider a Mastodon core at all as it's pretty beefy.
*Checks blog article briefly* Oh, it's not using a Mastodon core, just a way to send messages that a Mastodon server could accept. It's not a Mastodon server, just an ActivityPub one.
@trinsec agreed entirely! one of the things I don't know is: what does a "mastodon" server do that an activitypub one doesn't?
@sil Well, technically a Mastodon server -IS- an ActivityPub server of sorts.
Just a very beefy one.
Whereas Pleroma is a lot lighter. :)
And the example in the link even more lighter (but you'll have to go code to make it somewhat useful). ;)
ActivityPub is the protocol, all the aforementioned software speak it.
