Hi. 👋

I am JayVii, a data enthusiast with a passion for Free and Open Source Software. I care about social inclusion & privacy. This is my personal Fediverse server, powered by ktistec. I modified its appearance with my own adjustments.

I typically remove shared posts after ca. 3–6 months. I do keep most of my own posts (for now).

I post about a variety of topics, both in German and English, such as:

I also developed a few tiny & simple self-hostable tools to ease my life (and that of others), such as:

You can find out more about myself on my website or in my introduction post.

JayVii

Some observations about my #ktistec (1.0.0) trial:

  • The setup was super easy and blazingly quick. Barely any load on my server hardware
  • The UI is very smooth, simple and fast
  • Rich message-composer, which however feels like it is constantly fighting me (on mobile)
  • Posts can be edited any time!
  • Visibility of posts cannot be set. Everything is "global"
  • Media upload works fine. "Captions" are not the same as "alttext" in Mastodon.
  • Searching for tags would be a nice feature
  • No option for filtering my timeline, except for following and blocking accounts
  • Posts of accounts appear from the moment onwards you interacted with them for the first time
  • Above two observations make threads really awkward, because there is missing context
  • The "metrics" feature is really, really nice!
  • Obviously no limitation on post length(?)
  • No API that I am aware of. makes cross posting, archiving, etc somewhat hard to achieve(?)
  • The web-frontend embeds content from jquery, cloudflare and another random domain, which I feel like shouldn't be necessary (see screenshot)

All in all, there are many rough edges, but nothing that appears like it couldn't be overcome. Feels quicker nice, actually and I hope I have the skill set to actually contribute to this in the future!

Image caption: a screenshot of the ublock origin overview on a smartphone. It shows the domains ktistec on social.jayvii.de connects to. There is cloudflare, hwcdn.net and jquery
JayVii

Testing captions...

A screenshot of social.jayvii.de in a mobile browser with dark mode. If you can read this, then image captions work!
JayVii

Currently trying #ktistec, a very simplistic single-user selfhosted #fediverse server. Not 100% certain it'll stick around, but if you care to follow, there you go.