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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[–] Tealk@rollenspiel.forum 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What do you think of Friendica? It only needs PHP and a database.

[–] abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 2 points 1 month ago

@geoma @Tealk I run #Friendica and #pixelfed on an instance of #Yunohost. Just for me, my friends and family. (Gosh I wasn't sure about the use of the reflexive first person pronoun there). But I guess that it really does depended on what the system requirements are and - taking into account the, engaging with people who are migrating from IG, requirement to. Are thoes people mainly using pixelfed?

[–] geoma@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I think it looks kinda ugly? But could do... But between Friendica and Pixelfed, Pixelfed looks much sexier

[–] abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

@geoma @Tealk You are running #yunohost like I am? What server reaourcew do you have? Running both Friendica and Pixelfed is an option but without knowing more about your situation...

[–] geoma@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

I am running yunohost and have a pretty decent computer but I am sharing it for a bunch of different services so I need to keep usage as light as possible

[–] Tealk@rollenspiel.forum 0 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, the interface isn't winning any beauty pageants, but it's the most feature-rich software I know; the question is, how do you use social media?

[–] abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 1 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] geoma@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I guess it doesn't matter how much I use it, but how the people I want to help migrate do use it... and they mostly use Instagram as a (lousy) swiss knife.. About friendica, is it lightweight? do you have an idea in howit compares to akkoma in resource usage?

[–] abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 2 points 2 weeks ago

@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

[–] Tealk@rollenspiel.forum 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't compare it to Akoma, but since it's purely PHP and SQL-based, I'd consider it one of the most lightweight platforms alongside GoToSocial.

What about Pixelfed? That's probably the closest thing to Instagram.

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

Yes, Pixelfed is beautiful but I doubt its performance (resource usage). Do you know how it compares to Friendica in that sense?

[–] Tealk@rollenspiel.forum 2 points 1 week ago

No, I've never compared the services based on resource consumption; I've never really cared about that before.