Notices by Michael (michael@mstdn.thms.uk)

@nixCraft

@jwildeboer sadly at least mastodon doesn’t work like this at all.

In mastodon only self-replies by the OP are part of the activity pub replies collection, which is the reason that replies don’t federate well, and why we need FediFetcher.

Woha, this is unexpected: in a future update mastodon will automatically turn off open registration if no mod has logged in for a week or longer:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/29318

This is great news, and should hopefully significantly cut down on abandoned servers being used to send spam!

(And this is in addition to also having open registrations off by default on new servers.)

Great news!

#mastoadmin #spam

@nixCraft was that taken at #Cloudflare ‘s datacentre a few days ago? 😁

@aral as someone who’s married to an Egyptian I feel your pain!

My sister in law has never been able to get a visa. My mother in law was refused when our first child was born. My father in law is weirdly the only one who’s been able to get a 5 year visa.

It’s so very painful, that we are essentially only able to meet our family when we travel to Egypt…

@krzysztofdrozdowski @aral

Personally I find unlisted really hard to grasp. I believe unlisted posts show up in your followers timeline in the same way as public posts.

They just don’t appear in your server’s ‘Local’ timeline.

@aral Yeah, I love running my own infra, but it's certainly not for everyone 😆

@aral interesting thanks!

Pricing seems more than reasonable for dedicated.

I'd love to hear how you get on in comparison with masto.host's services.

@aral May I ask where you are off to?

@nikclayton @aral @pieceofthepie @nellie_m @mastodonmigration @aurynn it would certainly be possible (probably almost trivial) for them to disable migration capability at any time.

@nellie_m @mastodonmigration @aurynn @aral

"Please, when you mention Mammoth, do also mention that they
a) require you to sign up on their instance when you use it."

That's simply not true. I did use it on my own instance for testing.

(I'm not defending Mammoth, but I think misinformation and misrepresentation won't help anyone)

@ricard I don't want to speak badly about his host: masto.host is very competent, and very good at what they do, but ultimately that is the cost of shared infra, I'm afraid.

AFAIK @aral is running on a plan which provides him with 12 sidekiq threads, for $40 pcm.

I'm on a VPS that costs me $14 per month, and is running 25 threads comfortably - so more than twice as 'fast'* for less than half the money.

For $40 a month he could probably run a server that could sustain far more threads on dedicated hardware, but it would come at significant setup cost: Optimising sidekiq and Postgres for Mastodon is far from trivial, and that's part of what you pay for with a hosted service.

*) Obviously speed is about more than the number of processes, so please don't take this too literally.

@aral

“Something tells me there should be a different queue for posts you make, no?”

There sort of is, on a single user instance: the push queue will deal only with your posts.

You can split this out into its own worker, and then new posts you write will be pushed to other servers separately from other stuff.

I mentioned this in my blog post under the heading ‘Sidekiq opitimsation’ here https://blog.thms.uk/2023/01/setting-up-mastodon

(Unless of course that isn’t what you meant?)

@aral This is still my favourite way of getting ssl on localhost:

https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert

Very straightforward, and it 'just works'