fediseeds.fyi

tl;dr: this is a project to package fedi softwares in installable images which you can use on bare metal servers or Proxmox, or upload to a VPS or cloud provider, which will produce for you a more-or-less standard Debian server with an instance of the fedi software running and ready to use.

I'm having a retrenchment in my post-holiday recovery, so I haven't gotten my Snac instance online yet.

Maybe today, but I have to schlep halfway across town for a medical test and I have greens wilting in the fridge which need to go into a pot of soup, so maybe not today.

I installed & documented my install of Snac from debian-backports last night, but haven't done any of the work on the reverse proxy setup, hopefully I'll get to that later this afternoon.

The goal is to move this account to #Snac and use it to "dogfood" the creation of my first Fediseed - a release of #TurnkeyLinux for installing Snac.

Then after that I'll package progressively more complex fedi softwares for Turnkey.

so, minor change of plans.

last time I did anything related to this project, the plan was to package Pixelfed for Turnkey Linux as my pilot project, and then do Akkoma and/or Pleroma.

the landscape has changed quite a bit since then.

the new plan: set up a 'snac' instance, move this account to it (for dogfooding), package it for Turnkey, then do Mitra and/or GoToSocial, then do Pleroma and/or Akkoma.

yep, this thing is still on...

Project is definitely still alive, just waiting for me to have time for another push.

Once I get the first image built everything else will start to go faster I think.

I can't promise a delivery date on any part of this project due to personal chaos, but:

to build Fediseeds has been a gleam in my eye for five years or more, and my progress has been glacial, but I am relentless.

just keep an eye on this feed.

I am waiting to pounce on any opportunity to sink a few solid weeks of hyperfocus into the project this summer. there is so much to be done, not just the actual work but also all the web presence.

@katve@tech.lgbt @deutrino@mstdn.io @tilvids@mstdn.social Correct, one VM per platform app, no initial ability to compose >1 app on one machine.

Updates are the responsibility of the user, to start with, the aim of the project is to just make it far easier for people to spin up a new instance on their favorite hosting provider (or their own hardware) and be ready to go.

@tilvids@mstdn.social responded at @fediseeds@hostux.social in case anyone ends up here looking 🙂

@katve@tech.lgbt @deutrino@mstdn.io @tilvids@mstdn.social I aim to provide downloadable images (.iso and probably a couple virtualization formats) that install a fully-functional ____ instance on top of Debian stable.

So, download my Pixelfed image, upload to DigitalOcean or your favorite mom n pop VPS host, boot, follow the prompts, and at the end of the install you're on fedi.

Different than Yunohost et al because the end product is a bog-standard Debian system with the platform app of choice on it. No Docker.

This is a one-man show, so lately I've been working on the web presence when I haven't been able to work on the pilot project (an .iso which installs Pixelfed-on-Debian)

This is the Fediverse social media presence of a project to build & maintain installable images of Debian-based ActivityPub platform servers such as Pixelfed, Akkoma, and many others, which can be deployed in minutes at a number of inexpensive VPS providers, or on hardware maintained by the operator.