https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss https://this-is-fine.io/tags/fediverse/ Recent content in Fediverse on Fuchsbau https://this-is-fine.io/tags/fediverse/ https://source.unsplash.com/2000x1322/?fox 1440 Hugo 0.125.4 de-DE Wed, 20 May 2026 22:26:11 UT https://this-is-fine.io/posts/20260520-mastodon-to-snac/ Wed, 20 May 2026 10:00:00 UT ff0x https://this-is-fine.io/posts/20260520-mastodon-to-snac/ The lab used to run Mastodon on Kubernetes: PostgreSQL, a Redis-compatible cache, and S3-shaped media storage on top of the usual edge stack. That worked, but it was heavy for a small personal instance — more moving parts than the workload justified. The fediverse home at this-is-fine.social now runs snac instead: a minimal ActivityPub server in portable C, no database, all state on a single filesystem tree, backed up off-cluster with the same VolSync + restic pattern as other stateful apps. Infrastructure https://this-is-fine.io/posts/20251121-mastodon-fediverse/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:00:00 UT ff0x https://this-is-fine.io/posts/20251121-mastodon-fediverse/ Mastodon is a federated microblog server: local timelines plus ActivityPub links to other instances. Running it means managing state (PostgreSQL, media, cache) and edge (HTTPS and /.well-known for discovery). The lab instance is at https://mastodon.this-is-fine.social. It ships as a Helm release through Flux, same GitOps style as the rest of the lab. Federation is the interesting part socially and technically. Other servers discover you through HTTPS hostnames and /.well-known endpoints; if DNS or TLS drifts, federation breaks even when the pod is healthy. That is why the lab treats edge (Gateway API, cert-manager, external-dns) as first-class dependencies, not an afterthought. Infrastructure