Minetest with mods & SuperTuxKart

That is quite interesting. What are you using it for? You mention some remote islands?

Did you forget adding a link?

Storage expansion options are the one thing mini-pcs are bad for, so not really any great options there.

You could get a m2 to SATA adapter board, but getting the additional drives powered if you don’t have a ATX PSU isn’t fun.

And yes, use USB only for rarely accessed data.

It’s written in php Laravel, so it should be somewhat more lightweight than Mastodon, but not massively so.

Mastodon also has a bit of an unjustified bad reputation for that… yes for very small instances it is a resource hog, but it scales reasonably well to larger number of users after that initial bump.

According to the main developer’s mastodon feed, yes.

I think once groups land in Pixelfed and the new app is released on the official app-stores, which will hopefully both happen this month, it is probably the best option if people are used to IG and Facebook.

I use both Lemmy and Akkoma, but yes I used to be quite active on Hubzilla when I ran an instance of it.

Ah, good to know, thanks for the correction 👍

I don’t really have a need for most of the features Hubzilla offers, so I think I’ll stick to my Akkoma instance. But I encourage people to check out Hubzilla, as it is a neat project overall.

Since Pixelfed already supports that, I would assume yes.

It’s true that Hubzilla has access permissions for files on your WebDAV folder, and those access permissions sort of federate to other Zot protocol using sites (but not the wider Fediverse), but Nextcloud also has its own inter-Nextcloud federation where you can access files on other Nextcloud instances right inside your Nextcloud.

Well, for various reasons I stopped hosting my own Hubzilla instance some years ago, but back then it absolutely had CalDAV and CardDAV. The problem was mainly that this wasn’t well exposed in the Hubzilla web-interface, other than an event calendar. But with Thunderbird and DAVx5 etc. you could connect to it and manage it just fine. The WebDAV file storage part worked fine in the web-interface as well.

Edit: these parts are not federated though AFAIK (contrary to Nextcloud which does have some kind of file-sharing federation).

Yes and WebDAV support.

I think originally it tried to be a Facebook alternative, but over time it developed into a personal cloud space of sorts. I would agree with the comparison to Nextcloud as of 5 years ago, but these days they pivoted into the enterprise space and isn’t that nice for home users any longer.

Wordpress obviously.

Friendica, Hubzilla and Streams also work quite well for long-form blogs.

I works much better with Akkoma, but yes there are certain down-sides to single-user instances.

Gajim will have some more of that in the next version, Monocles or Cheogram have more modern features than Conversations and Siskin is very outdated feature wise and you should probably replace it with Monal.

That said it is not true that the three clients you mentioned have none of that. Sure they don’t have all of it, and there is some feature mismatch between them, but you are making it sound much worse than it is.

Oh and you can always use Movim which has most of the features you mentioned.

You are very outdated in your info about xmpp. Most of the stuff you mention is available these days.

https://f-hub.org/Solarpunk/ejabberd-auth-lemmy

It has some smaller issues, but overall it works well.

Every modern XMPP server supports XMPP over HTTPS (via BOSH or Websockets) and it works just fine.

But I wasn’t actually taking about integrating it in the UI of the fediverse instance itself. Which would be nice to have, but really not vital at all if you have a nice mobile chat client.