Actually now really interested in running my own instance on a #RaspberryPi that I have lying around. But I'd lose the great #Fosstodon local feed. Would there be a way of following it with #Mastodon or #Pleroma web UIs? Preferably without putting unnecessary pressure on the Fosstodon server also.
Of course, I don't have a static IP at home so I'd have to deal with that headache. I guess there's software to autoupdate #DNS records of a subdomain based on the current IP?
@nicd actually, it tempts me to make a network of low availability (by design) #yggdrasil servers. It may be unavailable to talk to the rest of the world, depending on how #acttivitypub resolves actors (I'm completely ignorant of the protocol). But it is available, then we can use it to host stuff anywhere and be reachable via a fixed IPv6 in the yggdrasil network.
@jonn I've been actually working on my own federated microblogging protocol (mostly in my head) that would tolerate nodes being offline for any amount of time. But I have too many other things going on right now. :P
@nicd wait wait, did we talk about self-hosting yet? Because this is part of what I was thinking about based on my realisation that self-hosting is only possible if we let people host content from their phones. Here comes the genius part:
Which, in turn is only possible if the data syncs while the phones are charging (which happens every day).
But it means that we need to develop to extreme low availability.
@jonn Having something work on a smartphone with the low availability would be an interesting challenge.
Problem with self hosting is IPv4 NAT and IPv6 not being available. Does Yggdrasil have tools to solve that? I don't know what it is really.
I should probably write my protocol idea down somewhere so that it could be commented on by others. :P
@nicd #yggdrasil abuses ipv6 and works on phones because it also abuses #wireguard.
But clearly the system will still have some conventional servers, public who don't self-host can connect to.
@jonn What if you don't have IPv6?
@nicd what do you mean? If your OS doesn't have IPv6 support, you should stop trying to use a washing machine to go online.
#yggdrasil creates a new virtual #tun interface (a virtual ethernet adapter). The only difference from #wireguard is that #yggdrasil is an open network! It kinda adds routing to wireguard.
@jonn I mean if your ISP doesn't offer you IPv6. I don't know how Yggdrasil works. How does one host something behind NAT in practical terms? Via a proxy server?
@nicd no, spin up yggdrasil, add an AAAA DNS record, enjoy life. That's how we host dev copies of services in https://doma.dev.
You can also point #Caddy active load balancer to a swarm of such servers and have a high total availability btw.
@nicd the catch is that you have to have #yggdrasil running on the client to connect, of course.
