Ask HN: How can I create a decentralized GNU-social-compatible website?
Not directly answering your question, but does anybody know of any server software I can run to take part in such decentralised&#x2F;federated&#x2F;etc. networks, which isn&#x27;t complicated by multi-user, Web-frontend bloat? GNU Social, pump.io, etc. and even Matrix, XMPP and IRC, etc. all seem to assume I want thousands of simultaneous users. I don&#x27;t; I&#x27;m the only user, but I want to integrate into the network.<p>Signing up for an account on someone else&#x27;s server seems to defeat the point, yet I haven&#x27;t found anything which I can run persistently on my server, access in a simple way (e.g. via SSH, a shared secret, a named pipe, etc.), and doesn&#x27;t make me uncomfortable allowing it online (i.e. dynamic Web stuff).<p>I used to use Laconica (AKA StatusNet AKA GNU Social) a lot via XMPP, but then identi.ca switched off their bridge, and then switched to pump.io which doesn&#x27;t seem to work with anything other than a Web frontend.<p>How would Usenet compare? I never got into it, but hear it&#x27;s filled with spam :(