christophertrottier

christophertrottier, 13 days ago to random

Just some akkomane.social stats for you.

We currently have 39 total users with 90% retention.

268 posts have been published, and we’re connecting to 8,454 peers.

Not bad for a server that’s less than a month old.

christophertrottier, 28 days ago to threads

#Threads gets a lot of blowback for making federation opt-in on their service.

But from an admin perspective, thank God they’re doing that because if 120 million accounts suddenly joined the #Fediverse, this could kill many servers.

Meta might have the resources send messages from that many accounts, but many Fediverse servers don’t have the resources to receive all of them.

This is why resource efficiency is such an important concern for the Fediverse at large. Hence why I’m interested in building a community of #Akkomane enthusiasts.

christophertrottier, 28 days ago to random

To give you a general idea at how well akkomane.social scales, it’s currently running on 1vCPU with 2GB of RAM. With these resources, it’s able to host 25 users – and things are humming along quite smoothly.

In contrast, the minimum RAM I’d use for a Mastodon server is 4GB. And that’s only if I posted a few times a day and had an account with less than 100 followers.

So really, if you’re concerned about managing scale, then #Akkomane is a pretty good option for you.

christophertrottier, 28 days ago to fediverse

The reason I’m excited about #Akkomane has less to do with whiz bang features, and more to do with scalability of the service.

With typical #Fediverse services, it takes a lot of resources to run them. And the more your server federates with others and redistributes messages, the more of a toll it takes on CPU and RAM.

More than one Fediverse server has closed because server admins simply didn’t have enough money or resources to keep them operating.

But Akkoma is great for low spec servers. This is why so many single-user servers use Akkoma. Unfortunately, the default UI/UX isn’t so user friendly.

However, I’ve discovered that an alternative front-end, Mangane, offers a UI/UX that is both familiar to most people, and offers lots of bells and whistles – such as quote posts, post scheduling, Markdown, etc.

Akkomane offers the best of both worlds: server stability and a friendly UI/UX.

christophertrottier, 1 month ago to random

I thought about providing an alternative front-end for people who prefer deck-like UIs.

However, I think it’s important that akkomane.social remain singularly focused on Mangane. If I want to provide access to another front-end, I can always spin up another server. Which I can easily do within 5 minutes.

Now the reason why I want to focus on Mangane, as opposed to other front-ends, is because – to 90% of people – aesthetics are important. When using social media, you want three qualities in a UI/UX:

1. Easy of use
2. Features
3. Eye candy

In general, I think Mangane offers a balance of all three. Anyone can use Mangane because it’s a lot like Twitter – but better. It’s got features not found with most Fediverse servers. And just look at it – it’s gorgeous.

As for uses that Mangane doesn’t provide, I think clients can fill in that gap.

kristian, 1 month ago to fediverse Norwegian

Does #Akkoma provide MFMs like #Firefish and #Misskey? And, what is #Akkomane?

Today I look forward to learning something new.

christophertrottier, 1 month ago to random

So far, three types of people have joined akkomane.social:

1. People who wants to try something novel and new (awesome!)
2. People who want to run their own Akkomane server and want to try it before they install (yay!)
3. People who are on a server that de-federates Threads, know akkomane.social hasn't de-federated Threads, and want to follow people on Threads (fascinating!)

At a certain point, I'd love former firefish.social users to try out akkomane.social and see how they like it.