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Stefano Marinelli - littleFedi

2026-11-15 17:08:50

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The #littleFedi devs are working on the code, but I'm working on the systems. I'm mostly a sysadmin, not a coder.

So here's a sneak peek at what's happening on a cold Sunday evening:

 * Starting littlebox-button ... [ ok ]
 * Starting littlebox-online ... [ ok ]
 * Starting littlebox-setup ... [ ok ]
littleBox Panel up: port 8081.
 * ERROR: littlefedi failed to start
 * Starting littlebox-usb ... [ ok ]
wlan0: interface state UNINITIALIZED->ENABLED
wlan0: AP-ENABLED
Setup: littleBox-806095, http://192.168.44.1:8081

It's running Alpine Linux on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. Yes, THAT Raspberry Pi.

Alpine Linux is a perfect fit. But one of the next steps will be to bring all this to NetBSD, on supported hardware.

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@Stefano Marinelli

This is interesting. Though in my experience it will only be of use for self hosting. Is that correct? My concern would be that if you are federating at a substantial rate, such as my Friendica Instance on a VPS which federates with over 62,00 nodes with over 20 million users then the bandwidth of a home ISP would fail rather quickly. The same is true for a website hosting account versus a VPS deployment. Any feedback would be appreciated.

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Screenshot of Federation of Rogue Project's Friendica Instance.
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Stefano Marinelli

@santi I've already covered that part. An USB device (pendrive, ssd, etc). The box system will ask and encrypt it, using restic to keep incremental backups. In case of emergency, you can reset everything, put the USB key, insert the encryption code and - profit - everything will be back from the backup. Just keep the stick connected and it will backup regularly, using the littleFedi internal backup and restic.
It's already tested and working. Similary, it already works also on NetBSD.
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