Run a Pi Zero 2 W social Fediverse server
The idea was simple. We sat around a table in the socially distanced (by about 400 miles) Linux Format-distributed HQ looking at the specs of the new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 and someone said, “I bet you could run a half decent social media server off that.” “You’re on," said the editor. “I want 1,500 words by the first half of next week.”
It was a couple of hours later when it was discovered that the launch day specs – eagerly repeated in almost all online publications – were not quite right. The Raspberry Pi OS would not have a 64-bit kernel on the £13.20 Pi Zero 2… at least, not for a while.
Undeterred, we discovered a workaround that enabled us to use a second Raspberry Pi (a 4B in this case) to assist in getting
