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🙋‍♂️ so, what are the git forges you are using - or want to be using? asking for … reasons. (would appreciate sharing for reach)

Caesar

@caesar.dev

- Codeberg - self-hosted Forgejo (I was involved in its creation) - GitHub (ugh) - Tangled looks nice but I haven't really used it My preference would be: - self-hostable (hard requirement) - open source (hard requirement) - federated or distributed (important) - nice UI - Rust + Svelte 😉

Anirudh Oppiliappan

@anirudh.fi

Looks like Tangled checks all those boxes (federation, Rust + Svelte).

Caesar

@caesar.dev

It certainly looks promising, though the self hosting looks kinda complex if you want to host the whole thing, right? Kind of like hosting a full Bluesky stack, not something I'd run on an RPi or a $5 VPS along with my Forgejo instance. I might spin up a knot though and play around with it properly.

12/10/26, 6:41 am0 reposts1 like

Caesar

@caesar.dev

I'd really like to see better documentation for Tangled, especially about self hosting and also protocols / implementation details that would be needed to create a compatible implementation. It would also be nice to be able to self host the frontend alongside the knot or use third-party frontends.

Caesar

@caesar.dev

Also since you mentioned Rust, I'm super curious about the mix of Rust and Go (I see more of the latter). Why was that choice made and how do you decide which to use where?

Anirudh Oppiliappan

@anirudh.fi

Sorry for the late reply! As for self-hosting, we've made it almost trivial to host a Tangled app view thanks to bobbin: blog.tangled.org/bobbin — it runs entirely in memory, and can do so in as little as 50 megs of RAM. This + our new Svelte UI is all you'd need.

blog.tangled.orgIntroducing BobbinA diskless, API-only AppView for Tangled

Anirudh Oppiliappan

@anirudh.fi

Aside from your own knot and spindle of course. Their resource consumption depends on your use case, naturally. Definitely possible to run the whole stack on very minimal hardware. Re: docs, expect a massive update on this front (among others) very very soon.