oooooh it’s time iiiiit’s time i mean i usually release second saturday of the month but i’m busy next week so now it is - it’s release day! New stuff Arm64 builds!!! oh yeah arm builds. amd64 move over, OTP releases now support the aarch64 architecture! many vps providers are starting to offer ARM servers at a reduced cost, so this may well be a nice cheap way for people to run instances. The new flavours can be found in the installation docs OTP Release base distributions updated our o...

Akkoma is an active fork of Pleroma, which implements ActivityPub protocol underneath and serves an interface similar to microblogging platforms such as Twitter or Tumblr. It implements a complete Mastodon client API, so all Mastodon clients work with it without trouble, even the Mastodon web UI can be installed and used with Akkoma.

Why Akkoma over Mastodon? It’s written in Elixir, so it’s faster and uses less resources than Mastodon. You can also define a character limit to your posts, use markdown formatting, quote posts and add emoji reactions. Perfect for small personal instances, you can run it super cheap.