Freedombone Home Server (freedombone) group
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2017 17:52:03 UTC 
Bob Mottram
Pleroma with the Mastodon frontend on !Freedombone. It's not really my particular taste, but for anyone who likes the Tweetdeck style this allows you to get the user experience of Mastodon but without the gigantic Ruby backend. This can run on a Beaglebone Black in about 150MB of RAM. https://social.freedombone.net/attachment/54956 -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2017 16:04:08 UTC
Bob Mottram
@verydumb This is really what the !Freedombone project is about - making it easier to run internet services yourself. - youtube -> mediagoblin
- tumbly -> lychee
- soundcloud -> koel
- facebook -> friendica or hubzilla
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2017 19:58:32 UTC
Bob Mottram
#introductions
For the newbies. Ugh, well, what to say? I'm a Free Software hacker. I use a mechanical keyboard and trackball and I am an Arch/Parabola user. In a former incarnation I mostly did industrial robotics and computer vision, but now I'm mostly interested in self-hosting and things pertaining to running communications systems.
I've always been interested in self-organizing systems and emergent processes. Systems which try to survive. This is the commonality across the various things I've done.
Likes:- cheese
- GNU/Linux
- crypto
- C
- bash
- robots
- cats
- freedom
- apes
- vanilla chai
- Celebs pushing fake/bad infosec
- Highly centralized systems
- Buzz words
- Bureaucracy
- Nazis / spooks
- Microsoft/Google/Facebook/Twitter
- Aristocrats, politicians, authoritarians
- Silicon valley ideology
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2017 12:46:05 UTC
Bob Mottram
Just in case there are any new Mastodon instance admins out there reading this, the number one thing you need to have in place if you want any sustained presence on the open web is a backup system in place and tested. This was one of the things I found early on with the !Freedombone project. If you don't have backups, or only an untested system, then any database corruption, failed hard drive or whatever can delete your entire user community overnight. I think that happened to at least one gnusocial server after the 2016 Twitter exodus.
Freedombone uses Obnam to do encrypted backups with a gpg key, but there are various other options available. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Monday, 10-Apr-2017 21:04:47 UTC
Bob Mottram
A green default theme for Pleroma on gnusocial on !Freedombone https://social.freedombone.net/attachment/15780 -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2017 21:11:07 UTC 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
#SubSunday: Some suggested subscriptions. @webmink has played a big role in the Open Source movement; @cwebber is the main dev for #MediaGoblin and main author of the #ActivityPub federation protocol;
@forteller contributed to the StatusNet software;
@rysiek has been a major proponent of joining federated networks into a larger federation; @bobjonkman has been actively promoting FOSS, federation, privacy and encryption in Ontario, Canada; @bob is the developer behind the amazing !freedombone project. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Apr-2017 11:44:58 UTC
Bob Mottram
Added ability to change the expiry period for gnusocial posts on !Freedombone https://social.freedombone.net/attachment/14025 -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2017 21:50:48 UTC
Bob Mottram
I started on !Freedombone at the end of 2013, although I had been running a server on a Sheevaplug since 2010. In 2013 I had started a new job in Manchester and had run out of steam on robotics projects so was looking for something new. The Snowden story was in the news a lot and so I though I would try to add more security to the server and either start running FreedomBox on it or do something similar. I checked the status of FreedomBox but it seemed to be effectively an abandoned project, so there was really only one choice: do something like FreedomBox but on newer open source hardware which was the Beaglebone Black. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Mar-2017 22:52:05 UTC
Bob Mottram
Getting NextCloud running on !Freedombone. Compared to some other installs this is quite straightforward, but the performance of NextCloud seems sluggish and that might just be down to bloat. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2017 11:52:32 UTC
Bob Mottram
@mythenhacker I build the !Freedombone site using Emacs org-mode. https://freedombone.net
The site is very basic, but org-mode allows me to edit and deploy html pages in a very simple and fast way which keeps the maintenance to a minimum. -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2017 20:12:14 UTC 
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
There's a !Mesh group for that! And a !Freedombone group! -
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca (bobjonkmanformer@sn.jonkman.ca)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2017 19:49:29 UTC
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
Adding this to the !Freedombone, !SelfHost, !Autonomous, !Decentralife groups. And heck, the !Fr33dom group too.
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