@f Are you same Farook that wrote a blogging program for Windows back in the day? I really enjoyed using it way back when. I wrote a couple litestep modules a long time ago :D

@woltiv Yep, that’s me 🙂

If you were active in the LiteStep community, I might remember your name — did you go by a different name/handle back then?

@f Yeah back then I was pug I think

@woltiv Not sure if I’m recalling your name or Pug from the Midkemia series by Raymond E. Feist, but I do remember the name 🙂

It’s been a long time … Somebody else from those days found me on here a few weeks/months back as well and I was totally surprised.

Those were good times 🙂

@f Indeed they were! Loved IRC and just banging out code - also was a big fan of Feist, but ended up donating the books a few years ago :|

It looks like you're hosting your own mastodon? Was it hard to get going? I initially thought I'd run one off a raspberry pi but it seemed like mastodon would be too resource intensive, so I joined one of the official instances.

@woltiv Yeah, it felt as if I could do anything back then while being on IRC — now, I hardly get any work done if somebody’s talking in the background 😛

Feist was one of my mainstays of reading for a long time since he’d churn out a book a year fairly regularly. Then he ended the Riftwar Cycle and that was that … I think I had most of his books in my collection but then we started traveling and had to leave all the books behind …

Regarding Mastodon, it was fairly straightforward for the two I tried. I first tried GoToSocial (https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial) and it was extremely easy to set up and was very low on resources back then. It just used SQLite for the DB. But it was missing some of the features I wanted and so I switched to Akkoma (https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma/) which was slightly more complicated to run but was still easier than setting up Mastodon 😛

Akkoma has all the features I wanted but does require about 4GB of RAM, if I recall correctly. So if you want light on resources (and possibly running off of a Raspberry Pi) then GoToSocial might fit the bill better. Plus, I believe it’s more mature now and has more features…

@f Wow, thanks for all the info :) I think I'm going to try GoToSocial.

/quit See you later :P