Takah\u0113 @takahe #fedi server is getting an upgrade this week to 0.9.0, increasing its compatibility with #Mastodon client apps and losing its own built-in web posting interface (but not its web reading UI) in favor of those clients. Takah\u0113's major differentiating feature is that a single server can support multiple domains, allowing one user to conveniently manage identities in each served domain (or some subset of them).
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You can experience it yourself at takahe.social. I've been running a self-hosted server for 90 days for this identity, while my more day-to-date active account has been @osma. You can find my notes about installing and running it in this post medium.com/better-programming/
A lot has been said about large versus small fedi servers, so this seemed like a good moment to review what does a small server federation on #ActivityPub look like?
Since I set up the server, I've been following about 500 people on this account, but doing very little to get followers myself. 61 people have started to follow the account organically despite the fact I've only posted 31 times here (and had a lot of active conversations on @osma). I have not triggered a migration from my daily account here, because migration is a feature Takah\u0113 doesn't yet have.
Meanwhile, the federation network has sent this server 195107 posts and mentioned 39449 identities in 3227 domains. This is a fair bit of traffic considering the low usage of the instance over the 90 day period, though a tiny fraction of the nearly a billion posts per month that fedidb.org reports flowing across the network today.
I still plan to migrate off @osma here as soon as profile move and history imports become a feature - they're on Takah\u0113 roadmap. Another interesting thing on that roadmap is provisional support for Bluesky - pending its federation capabilities becoming available. That should be an interesting experiment, sometime later. I have some writing pending on what I think about the Bluesky architecture as it is being fleshed out.
Being able to support multiple domains, multiple identities, and possibly even multiple federation networks off a single server install will mean quite a lot of opportunity for simplifying hosting of fedi services for organizations who would rather show their own domains than sitting on community-provided Mastodon instances. I'm curious about how much latent demand for this capability isn't being met today.
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