I don't get what it does. Is ActivityPub used like some kind of RSS feed that people can follow?
It's a decentralized Twitter clone.
Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog
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Re: Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog
#12I don't get what it does. Is ActivityPub used like some kind of RSS feed that people can follow?
the spec is pretty easy to digest in my opinion. I'd start there:
Re: Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog
#13I saw that mastodon.technology is shutting down soon. Would this microblog.pub be a good alternative to hosting my own mastodon? I don't have any other users, so it'd just be for me to maybe interact with people on other mastodon instances.
hosting a full-blown mastodon for a single user instance is extremely overkill.
if you have access to a LAMP like your typical shared hosting provider, you could try Gnu Social or WordPress with the AP plugin.
Re: Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog
#14> Uses SQLite, and no external dependencies except Python 3.10+ I don't know if it's the way it's been written, but it reads to me that only python is needed, no libraries. I'm assuming this isn't true though: I can see a lot of libraries: https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub/blob/v2/pyproject.to...
I would have guessed that it means something like "you know how you need to get postgres, redis, and elasticsearch up for a good mastodon install? none of those"
Re: Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog
#15I saw that mastodon.technology is shutting down soon. Would this microblog.pub be a good alternative to hosting my own mastodon? I don't have any other users, so it'd just be for me to maybe interact with people on other mastodon instances.
I am a ~single-user Mastodon instance admin. It is a big hassle to get set up, but then I never have to really think about it day-to-day.
That said, there are also a lot of other good instances, and I am jealous of folks with a nice local timeline, so the general advice (for anyone else reading) would be to just move instances.
I don't know if this has an ergonomic read-posts-from-other-instances setup. If you try it, write up what you think somewhere? :)
Re: Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog
#16I saw that mastodon.technology is shutting down soon. Would this microblog.pub be a good alternative to hosting my own mastodon? I don't have any other users, so it'd just be for me to maybe interact with people on other mastodon instances.
hosting a full-blown mastodon for a single user instance is extremely overkill. if you have access to a LAMP like your typical shared hosting provider, you could try Gnu Social or WordPress with the AP plugin.
I agree, I started looking at setting up a mastodon instance and didn't get very far before looking at alternatives.
Thanks for the suggestion. I don't really want to run another Wordpress, but Gnu Social looks promising.
Re: Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog
#17I don't get what it does. Is ActivityPub used like some kind of RSS feed that people can follow?
It's a decentralized Twitter clone.
That's an extremely short sighted opinion.
ActivityPub is an extremely versatile protocol that resembles a lot like speech.
Some guy made a bunch of "smart" devices communicate with eachother through his own GNU social instance. Essentially making his house a "smart" home.
Re: Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog
#18> Uses SQLite, and no external dependencies except Python 3.10+ I don't know if it's the way it's been written, but it reads to me that only python is needed, no libraries. I'm assuming this isn't true though: I can see a lot of libraries: https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub/blob/v2/pyproject.to...
I feel like Python 3.10 is large dependency -- almost no one would use it unless required.
Re: Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
hosting a full-blown mastodon for a single user instance is extremely overkill. if you have access to a LAMP like your typical shared hosting provider, you could try Gnu Social or WordPress with the AP plugin.
I agree, I started looking at setting up a mastodon instance and didn't get very far before looking at alternatives. Thanks for the suggestion. I don't really want to run another Wordpress, but Gnu Social looks promising.
Check out pleroma. It uses much less resources than mastodon so it’s been nice as a single user instance.
Re: Microblog.pub – A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a decentralized Twitter clone.
That's an extremely short sighted opinion. ActivityPub is an extremely versatile protocol that resembles a lot like speech. Some guy made a bunch of "smart" devices communicate with eachother through his own GNU social instance. Essentially making his house a "smart" home.
ActivityPub and GNU Social users! There are dozens of us, Michael, dozens!