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Back on the Fediverse

Sun, 14 Feb 2021 20:47:38 +1000

Back on the Fediverse

A recent post from Alan Pope, Mastodon Instances, Everywhere, reminded me that I also used to run a Mastodon instance back when it was all still new and shiny.

My instance ran for awhile and had a few users and I actually enjoyed being on the network. It was much more civil and discussions seemed friendlier than Twitter. Eventually, I shut my instance down as it took more and more sysadmin time, was quite resource hungry and their updates did not always go smoothly.

Recently, I decided to jump back into the Fediverse and see how many people I could follow there instead of on Twitter. Not surprisingly, most of those in the Linux community are the easiest to find Mastodon accounts for.

To get on the Fediverse, I chose to spin up an instance of Pleroma and so far I’m liking this. It uses a lot less resources than Mastodon itself, seems easier to keep up-to-date and even has a clone of the Mastodon interface (see MastoFE).

How long will I run it this time? Who knows, but I am enjoying it again and without the stress of running a “real” Mastodon instance.

Online With Hugo

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 22:53:29 +1000

As part of wanting to go through and reorganise my various sites and blogs, so I (once again) have a place to write again, I have switched over to Hugo as my content system. I have just spun up a new web host with Apache and Git to automatically pull site changes from the repo and publish them. It’s all working beautifully so far.

About The Theme

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Indigo is a lightweight theme for Hugo with IndieWeb features baked in. It’s great for longer-form blogging, placing its focus on distraction-free reading and beautiful typefaces.

Adding Page Items

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Indigo supports adding a simple navigation-style menu items across the top of the site. To do so, simply add a menu: "main" entry in your page’s front matter (TOML format shown).

If no date is included in the front matter, then the published date won’t be shown (as in this page).