@geoma I think its more that you can run it across multiple compute instances - and for multiple organisations. So its supporting the case where your compute requirements have grown beyond one vm (or you want redundancy ) and where you have multiple organisations that you want to support multiple independent instances of the same (or different) suite of applications.

It seemed like a great idea for people like @coopcloud and others like @Cloud68 doing hosting. The savings over running multiple instances of mastodon / pixelfed must be huge?

@geoma Oh right yeah I am using a VPS. What kind of specs does your server have?

@geoma My other random though is that for instagram people the choice of app you recommend is probably as important as the backend that you use. Since thats the ui they experience.

@geoma In another chat there was a mention of #nodebb nodebb.org/product - just throwing that into the mix - probably creating chaos by doing so.

@UnfinishedProjects Oh cool. Ok. Must checkout #nodebb

@geoma @Tealk I can’t answer you on that but perhaps others have more direct experience. #Friendica can do groups but maybe not pages.

What’s limiting you on CPU? I guess number of users is not so much an important metric more number of concurrent users

@UnfinishedProjects Hve dipped out of this conversation but from the original post would something that can use federated identities be more suited …maybe hubzilla.org/page/info/home #Hubzilla

@geoma @Tealk I havent explored the alternative UIs for friendica but might be worth checking those out…

@lovingisliving But to answer your question I started playing around with Events and groups recently.

@lovingisliving Well I have but my family aren’t massive social media users so its pretty lightweight activity. I guess my experience is that friendica has a lot of features in there - I like groups and events myself but also I found myself looking at how one account can manage another - I thin this would be great for parent/child accounts - perhaps it might need a few more controls around what the child account can/cannot do …

I’m actually not far from creating another friendica instance just as a ‘trial’ server for people I know who want to try it out.

I wish I was more capable in taking ideas for features that I would find useful and turning them into deliverable things. I’m a Business Analyst so I can define the requirements but I need some dev friends to help me out doing the delivery.

@lovingisliving @zarapp I can only talk to my own experience but running an instance for friends and family has been pretty minimal effort

@lovingisliving What specifically were the issues that you ran into?

Improving it - that’s alot less work than recreating something from scratch.

@lovingisliving If you want a #Facebook replacement then look to #Friendica - rather than anything new.

@Kkk2237pl Can I suggest that success here is modifying and building on existing tools that work with other existing tools and making them work better.

For example - I found git.sr.ht/~cloutier/dotmakeup #dotmakeup by @vincent - which can pull instagram and twitter posts and syndicate them. #Friendica has add on that post to Twitter - so my thinking is that adding #dotmakup tools into Friendica would help allow users to migrate to Friendica while maintaining connections via Twitter and Instagram

Dropping back a bit Friendica works really well on #Yunohost - making #Yunohost easier to run on a homerouter as a drop in replacement for ISP supplied routers would mean that it would be easier for people to buy a bit of kit, take it home , turn it on , have their own ActivityPub server running fairly quickly and be linked into those existing communities (both ActivityPub and commercial)

@cristian64 No idea but I found this on #fdroid f-droid.org/en/packages/hu.vmi…

What devices do you have? Check if they are suppprted by #gadgetbridge gadgetbridge.org/

@Kkk2237pl Can I suggest that you start with something simple where as much as possible is templated - im like a broken record on this but i use #yunohost simply because heaps of people are using the same config.

@Kkk2237pl Im no expert so you know take everything with a grain of salt but for me i flash all my routers with #openwrt including #tplink stuff… Butnthat gives me everything i need.

You probably do.everything with stock firmware though

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