Web developer. Lead developer of PieFed
A long-time mastodon contributor is shutting down their instance - https://vmst.io/@vmstan/116757564108266599
Small instances close down all the time but in this case it’s not just anyone’s instance.
This new environment will provide developers with an incentive to find ways to rein in their platform’s storage and CPU usage.
The next shoe to drop will be when S3 object storage prices double or triple. That’ll really thin the herd.
I left Hetzner after the price increase a couple of months ago, expecting that hike not to be the last.
Now I run my own hardware. It feels good to ‘own the means of federation’ and not rent it!
Another way to look at it would be “if you’ve got a toy project to practice coding without AI on, do it now” before that is the only option.
“I told you Mexico would pay for it!”
I’m aiming for the end of June. Probably only in a basic form but still usable.
Try https://www.palemoon.org/, it’s a fork of Firefox from a few years ago before it got big.
Yes, we need this.
In the next release you’ll be able to follow other people (not just communities), which means following people from Mastodon, which means posts are going to start arriving with multiple images.
It’s on it’s way.
I’m not 100% sure.
There’s a regular background task that runs every minute. For the last couple of days it has started crashing about once per hour. Approx one in 60 runs ends badly. Not a normal crash where I receive a nice tidy error report saying which line of code it happened in, an ugly crash where all I get is an email from the background task runner saying “864 Segmentation fault (core dumped)” which is very unhelpful.
This went on for a couple of days. I ignored it because it didn’t seem to be doing any harm and I have better things to do.
Then yesterday morning I wake up and the whole server is unresponsive, I can’t even SSH in. The HDD light is stuck on and the fans are very loud. I turn it off and then on again, it boots up normally.
Nothing interesting in the server logs.
At this point I suspect some experiments with my LAN’s internal DNS server that I’ve been doing recently might have caused it to go offline, as the DNS server is looking flaky and PieFed has been making way more requests than I expected it would. But that turns out to be a dead end. I revert all the DNS experiments back to how it was before, just to be sure. Then I start looking into the segfaults. It’s possible that one of the segfaults eventually hit something serious enough that it caused PieFed to get overloaded.
After trying all kinds of things it turns out that I have 3 different python packages that do SSL (database connection, http connections and for encrypting passwords) and they each import a different version of the same C library. They clash and very occasionally causes a random segfault. Switching off SSL on the database connection stops the segfaults. This is fine because the connection happens over a private LAN anyway.
Having nailed down the only two broken bits that were flapping in the wind (DNS and random segfaults), I think it’ll be ok again. Probably.
Yeah, could do. PieFed already does fairly ok at this, explaining the rationale for providing alt text:
All the mobile apps I checked do something similar, with no extra nudging, just an empty text field. Generally the mobile app devs are keen on new ideas like this, maybe do a post in the Voyager or Blorp community and see where that goes.
There it is - Mastodon goes out of it’s way to warn the user that they haven’t provided alt text whereas Lemmy says (optional)
After postmodernism there has to be an attempt to take the best from postmodernism, modernism, traditionalism and use them in a situation-appropriate way, fluidly and naturally. Because none of those previous stages had the full picture and each has something to offer.
Ken Wilber called this stage “Integral”
“oh ho ho, I’m going to have some fun with that!”, she said
Not in the same way, no.
Most of the fediverse is open to all by default and the control admins have is to create a block list of instances they’d rather not federate with. With Peertube it doesn’t federate with anyone until admins on both sides add each other to an allowlist.
One thing that took me a looong time to realize is that Peertube federates weirdly - it’s all under control of the instance admin, not it’s users. Admins decide which instances federate with each other and then all the videos are copied between instances that have agreed to federate with each other.
But there’s no way to see this in the UI, as an ordinary user!
So it’s all super fragmented. Discoverability is atrocious, even by fediverse standards.
If you look at https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=-totalInstanceFollowers then that’ll help you find a well-connected instance. Then post onto that one.
It did, yes.
No mention of the war or sanctions. Seems like a deliberate oversight.
I didn’t know about Youtube posts (as opposed to videos), thanks!
Big improvements to the search tool coming in the next PieFed version, out in a few weeks.
Yeah it’s not great. I could have a PSU blow out any time and it’ll take me days to sort it out, probably. I have a spare server (these things are < $100 so why not) but getting it ready for prime time wouldn’t be quick either.
Anyway the resiliency of the fediverse is in the network - people can just use another instance for their fix of shitposts until their main comes back.