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fediverse platform for a schools community network (lemmy.ml)
submitted 5 months ago by geoma@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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I am looking to host a fediverse platform for a community of non-tech people. These people use mostly ig and some still fb. These people are from a network of schools which are ideologically aligned with libre software and decentralisation. It will include adults and also teenagers, who mostly use IG. This is part of a plan of a massive migration to ethical platforms. I am trying to choose the fittest fediverse solution to these, also considering that I am not sure how much my home server will be capable of sustaining, so the platform should ideally be as lightweight as possible. I am considering mastodon, pixelfed, misskey and sharkey, and some people have suggested akkoma.

What would you recommend? Thanks!!

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think once groups land in Pixelfed and the new app is released on the official app-stores, which will hopefully both happen this month, it is probably the best option if people are used to IG and Facebook.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh I didn't know there was a new app coming out, is the original one being rebuilt?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 months ago

According to the main developer's mastodon feed, yes.

[–] geoma@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if pixelfed is resource hungry? As mastodon?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's written in php Laravel, so it should be somewhat more lightweight than Mastodon, but not massively so.

Mastodon also has a bit of an unjustified bad reputation for that... yes for very small instances it is a resource hog, but it scales reasonably well to larger number of users after that initial bump.