Ok, well, the last test seems to have worked, and with that #Bullhorn is a fully fledged ⁂ Fediverse instance. This means, there' a new kid on the block, a small but hopefully somewhat useful single-user-self-hosted instance for hikers, travelers, photographers, and anyone else looking for something a bit more photo-forward to host themselves.

In a nutshell, Bullhorn is a Django/Python (curse you, @simon@simonwillison.net for making me like it back in the "Simon eats Quail" days) microblog with fediverse (ActivityPub) features, that scratches my itch of needing a decent solution to upload my #DigiLux2 and #iPhone17Pro images and document my traveling.

After cancelling my Flickr account (had it since 2004, my first photo was the oldest still on their servers for a long, long, time, until someone backdated their Getty collection, but it was uploaded during the Etech Beta Demo), I needed something to fill the void. Bullhorn was meant to be a local-only replacement. Then it got galleries and AI and text posts, and after I was in for that penny, I figured why not go in for the pound and make it speak ActivityPub.

I'll probably do a livestream this weekend about it. We'll see :)