[LUG]Re: Low cost and low powered fediverse server

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Subject: [LUG]Re: Low cost and low powered fediverse server

From: Richard Brown <cregyrich@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:55:31 +0100

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Because of the cost of Pi's I ended up buying two Lenovo ThinkCentres. I think it is a 920s with 16gb ram and a 720s with 16gb ram. Both are i7s. They run whisper quiet, almost no watts and run everything I need.

I have both set up with containers running Jellyfin, immich, nextcloud and a few others which I can't remember.

I process dvds and photos. I don't do a lot of text based stuff so the remainder is website work and emails.

I would love to get a pi at some point but the servers were £80 and £140.

Kind regards

Richard Brown
Youth Worker
07546 804439

On Sat, 29 Aug 2026, 3:39 pm Paul Sutton via list, <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So, to try kick things off, This is a current topic on Mastodon.

https://rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it/@stefano/blog/2026/08/26/this-is-the-first-genuinely-operational-littlefedi-instance/

So a Raspberry Pi 0W (Wireless), running NetBSD, running a Mastodon
server. It looks pretty neat, from that article has very low overhead
in terms of system resources.

The source and other details are due out in September.

Paul
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