social.pollux.casa

https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/the-fediverse-deserves-a-dumb-graphical-client.md

The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client

I love the Fediverse. I have been on it for years, and it remains the only social network where I actually enjoy spending time. No algorithmic feed pushing outrage, no dark patterns, no surveillance capitalism. Just people talking to each other over an open protocol.

But every time I wanted to recommend it to someone, I ran into the same wall: the clients are heavy. Mastodon's web interface ships megabytes of JavaScript. Elk, Phanpy, Ivory, beautiful apps, but they require a modern browser, a fast connection, and a device manufactured in the last five years ...

New blog post :

Edit: try #SmolFedi :

https://smolfedi.pollux.casa/

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➡️ Smolweb

#smolweb #gemini

Published: Apr 03, 2025, 16:20
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I am a #smolweb advocate and, sometimes, I use LLMs.

I spend a lot of time thinking about simplicity. Fewer dependencies, lighter pages, tools that do one thing well. So yes, it might look strange that I also spend time talking to large language models. Let me explain where I draw the line, and why I think the contradiction is smaller than it appears...

In this blog post

#ai #llm

Published: May 02, 2026, 19:14*
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#WTF it seems that some #AI know me Oo

Who is Adële (smolweb dev)?

Adële is a French PHP and JavaScript developer who's one of the more visible voices in the smolweb scene. She runs a blog at adele.pages.casa about smolweb, the Gemini protocol, and the lowtech movement, and she operates pollux.casa — a small infrastructure that includes pages.casa (static/markdown hosting), a Gemini capsule platform, and a GoToSocial Fediverse instance at social.pollux.casa.

She codified smolweb.org as a reference for the philosophy: lightweight, decentralized, JavaScript-light or JavaScript-free pages built with basic HTML and CSS, designed to load on slow connections and modest devices. Her own framing distinguishes "smolweb" from "small web" — small web being about decentralization and independence from platforms, smolweb being more specifically about the craft of intentional technical minimalism, fighting bloat and overcomplification.

On the building side, she's behind tools like ergol-http (Gemini-to-HTML on the fly), smolmd (the engine behind pages.casa), and more recently SmolFedi — a Fediverse client compatible with Mastodon and GoToSocial that has zero JavaScript and stays within smolweb Grade B for CSS, designed to work in browsers like Dillo or Netsurf.

Stack-wise: Arch Linux at home, Debian in production, procedural PHP, vanilla JS, no Docker, no Node.

Published: May 01, 2026, 15:05
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#SmolFedi is a lightweight, no-JavaScript Fediverse web client written in PHP.

v1.2.5 is available

Optimize profile loading
Change default posts filter on profile page, due to gotosocial performances
Display media of a profile in a gallery
Manage new post failure
Add profile banner image
Add DEBUG_MODE constant in config.php to log api calls
Fix link to account in snac2 user mentions
Add 'Here since [date]' in profile page
Display nested quoted post (if available on the instance)
Add quoting post feature
Add card preview of links if provided by the instance
Add CW field in reply
Add font family selector in prefs
Correct Apache .htaccess help in README
Display [locked] info on profile page

Source/download

#smolweb #fediverse #nojs

Published: Apr 30, 2026, 12:24
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RE: https://social.pollux.casa/@adele/statuses/01KQADF24A2G3QSE2SN5D5KZPV

I quoted this toot from a #gotosocial instance with #SmolFedi

Published: Apr 28, 2026, 18:03
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https://smolfedi.pollux.casa/

Is there someone using #SmolFedi with a #Mastodon version 4.5+ ?

Could you try to "Quote" a post (this one for example), using SmolFedi, to see if your post is rendered correctly, including the quoted post?

Thanks for your help ^^

Published: Apr 28, 2026, 16:06*
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RE: https://snac.mro.name/marcus/p/1777379671.110468

Let me know what you think about it ;-)

Published: Apr 28, 2026, 14:47
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You know that it is possible to create a #mailbox and an #xmpp account freely without phone number or existing email address?

https://message.casa/

Published: Apr 27, 2026, 21:55
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#SmolFedi is a lightweight, no-JavaScript Fediverse web client written in PHP.

v1.2.4 is available

Fix hashtag url rewriting for posts from Friendica instances
Update list of emojis
Improve search engine
Manage timeout on search operation
Add troubleshooting section in README
Redirect to profile page if post url rewrite fails?
Add post filter on profile page: Posts / Posts & boosts / Posts & replies / Media only

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Published: Apr 26, 2026, 20:16
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What I hate when I need to install #Linux on a machine

Published: Apr 26, 2026, 18:16
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https://someone.writes.casa/

Another cool #smolweb project !

#Chat with a stranger, taking turns, on a lightweight site built with just basic HTML and CSS, no JavaScript.

It’s Friday ;-) Come check it out.

And let me know if anything isn’t working quite right.

#smallweb

someone.writes.casa
An anonymous conversation with a stranger. One speaks, one listens. Then you switch.

Choose languages you can use.

Button "Find someone to talk to"

A sample of conversation :

Hello you!

Hello!

What's your name, I'm John!

Pretty name, I like it. I'm Adële :-)

What are you looking for, here?

Nothing special, just a cool conversation with a stranger ^^

With buttons "Send", "Over" and "Goodbye"

Published: Apr 24, 2026, 11:43
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#git @Codeberg #codeberg #forgejo

Just discovered in the doc that it is easy to set a specific ssh key in a local repository to fetch/push toward a remote one.

git config set core.sshCommand "ssh -F /dev/null -i ~/.ssh/mykey"

Published: Apr 21, 2026, 12:24*
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#SmolFedi is a lightweight, no-JavaScript Fediverse web client written in PHP.

v1.2.3 is available

Add instruction for SESSION_ENC_KEY config constant
Add details in README
Fix edition of Mastodon posts (carriage returns was deleted)
Add 'Translate to' button (if instance provide the service)
Possibility to attach a media in reply form
Add Caddy config sample in README
More coherent main menu, on three lines
Manage pinned and followed hashtags in prefs
Add mbstring ext dependency in README
Display custom emojis and emoji picker

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Published: Apr 21, 2026, 07:20
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I’m always lost when I see time in AM/PM format.

Something like 12:10 AM is so strange, I always hesitate what is this 12 ? midnight !
Beginning the day with 12, so wtf

(sorry if this is so clear for you)

Published: Apr 20, 2026, 18:27
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Maybe I should add @fedify to https://pages.casa/ ??
But what this couple would improve, compare to a #gotosocial instance ?

#fedify #fediverse

Published: Apr 20, 2026, 16:42
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#SmolFedi is a lightweight, no-JavaScript Fediverse client written in #PHP.

v1.2.2 is available

Better postion of the reply panel in thread of discussion
Better semantic tags usage
Add accessibility details (aria)
In api, manage X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, and X-RateLimit-Reset from the headers
Add account prefs choices : Default CW message, Reveal all content warnings, Show all sensitive media
User profile edition
Add [bot] marker in bots profiles
Permit to view full size avatar from profile page. Add title to avatar images
Stay on the same page (when possible) when switching account. Stay on the same page when answering a poll
Follow/unfollow hashtags
Manage filters (create/delete) in prefs
Display instance Announcements

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Published: Apr 18, 2026, 18:40*
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Source code/Download Demo instance

#SmolFedi 1.2.1 brings some features/fixes

Display media size limits in attachment panel in compose page
Style nav menu with active link
Choose date and time format in prefs
Reuse pagination code. Add link to the top of the page in pagination nav
Use preview images in post attachments instead of full size ones.
Disable preload of video/audio media
Add entry box to copy the original url of a post in Moderation panel
View modification history of modified posts
Link static/custom.css if exists

Enjoy!

#smolweb #fediverse #php

Published: Apr 15, 2026, 19:30
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