2025-09-27 –, Gray Hall
The Fediverse is the reclaimed, social web. With federated social platforms like Mastodon and Peertube everyone is able to host their community on the Fediverse, communicating with others on different communities, without borders. In this talk Jeroen and Stefano go over their experiences hosting the Fediverse and other services on *BSD instances. What are the lessons learned and how is the experience administering an instance, a couple of years in?
Stefano is the admin for bsd.cafe, Jeroen is the admin for exquisite.social. Both run on BSD and are beacons for the BSD minded folks on the Fediverse.
I am a system engineer by trade and by passion. My platform of choice are the BSDs. I have been using OpenBSD for over two decades and HardenedBSD for about a decade.
Stefano Marinelli is an IT Consultant with over two decades of experience in the realms of IT consulting, training, research, and publishing. His expertise spans across operating systems, with a special emphasis on BSD systems - FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD - and Linux. Stefano is also the Barista at BSD Cafe, a vibrant community hub for BSD enthusiasts, and has led the FreeOsZoo project at the University of Bologna, making open-source operating system images accessible for virtual machines.