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.

  • geoma@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    17 days ago

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

      • geoma@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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        1 day 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.forumEnglish
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      17 days ago

      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?

      • geoma@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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        3 days ago

        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?

        • Tealk@rollenspiel.forumEnglish
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          1 day ago

          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.mlOPEnglish
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            1 day ago

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

        • abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es
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          2 days 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

          • geoma@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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            1 day ago

            Friendica does not have pages functionality? More than CPU, I guess main limitation is RAM?