Hey all,
Just a quick question for everybody, sorry if it is stupid. I have been on the Fediverse since the blackouts I probably should know this by now, but have clearly let things pass me by.
Basically, I want to buy a raspberry pi or a mini PC to run as a server. I would buy a domain name and use the website as sort of a private portal that I would do my posts from. I could upload videos to loops or a picture to pixelfed, make a microblog for Mastodon or have a long form blog.
My idea is that I would be the only person on the server and if somebody were to go to the url itself all they would see is the posts themselves in chronological form, but I would really not be wanting people to experience the site itself but rather the fediverse posts on their individual apps. The post having come from the site would rather be the authenticator that it is me who posted it.
Is something like this possible or would I essentially need multiple servers and domain names for each individual fediverse service?
I wouldn’t worry about ‘website traffic’ if you are using federated services: there is a shit ton of chatter back and forth between servers.
You could put the UI behind a simple password page but you will have to leave all the API urls open.
It takes time and effort to keep ALL the services update (as well as the host OS). So much so that I have actually taken down my wordpress blog
Thank you.
This has been a lot of help.