google had to level up by killing RSS and XMPP before they could gain enough XP to kill email.
once they're done with that they will move on to the final boss of killing the web.
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if you don't have the skills to run your own server but you do have the financial ability to support your instance admin, definitely look into that!
if your instance admin doesn't accept donations, the GotoSocial project is going to become more important as the fediverse grows and we need more people standing up their own instances, so consider contributing: https://opencollective.com/gotosocial
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not necessarily complaining, I knew what I was getting into here
fedi is pretty tolerant of servers temporarily disappearing, and it'll recover gracefully with time
#homeServerLife
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monitoring my #homeServer power outage by watching my IRC bouncer's connect/disconnect status messages from Matrix
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I've been using this home server setup since 2018 (albeit only for SSH until 2022 or so) and it has never happened *once* before that it's gone down so hard that it required manual intervention to bring back up
just figures that it would happen to hit when I'm on the other side of the world!
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one of my favorite things about GoToSocial is that it's so easy to set up:
- download+untar release
- edit config file to set domain name, set DB to sqlite
- run admin account add
- set up DNS
- run server start in tmux (you can move it to systemd or whatever later if you want but it's not strictly needed)
you can run it inside docker and a lot of people do, but IMO that's just extraneous overhead that doesn't buy you much, because it's already self-contained without external dependencies
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@indirect@fiasco.social I had anticipated something going wrong with my dynamic DNS cron job, so I left the machine open to a terminal with the command to fix it all queued up so you could just press enter
I did not anticipate massive power failure!
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oh dear....... power's back on but the server's still not responding
I guess 8 hours was a little too long for that poor old battery
will have to chat my kid to ask to push the button once he's up tomorrow
@srol@mellified.men the best thing I can say about season 2 is that for a couple episodes it had ICE as the primary antagonist; the acab part was cool
I think most of the praise season 3 got was relative to the first two seasons, and if it had opened with season 3 it would have gotten a pretty lukewarm reception; it's the kind of thing I would watch on a plane if there weren't any movies I wanted to see
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on the other hand it's fairly new so some features are missing. video is not yet supported, and posts with videos will currently just have them stripped out, though there's a draft fix for this. (this is a bummer because while GtS supports gifs just fine, mastodon doesn't, and will convert uploaded gifs into videos)
the other one I just learned is that there's no features for reporting abusive accounts. this means you may want to keep your servers smaller and invite-only. luckily being easy to set up means having more smaller servers is easier
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@vtmicah@vmst.io my usage is still on the light side, but I've never seen it go over 100MB of ram or stay above a 0.1 load average for a second
shared block lists are on the roadmap: https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/blob/main/ROADMAP.md#q3-2022
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@unamccormack@mstdn.social Allamaraine Allamaraine count to four!
Allamaraine Allamaraine then three more...
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@hanscees@mastodon.lol it's an activitypub server for social media networking, similar to mastodon but without being intensely resource-hungry
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@gigatexal@mastodon.social mine cost $0 because I'm running it off an old laptop on my home network
I understand it's not an option for everyone because residential ISPs tend to be horrid, but even a $5/mo VPS is plenty for GtS
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@vtmicah@vmst.io there's actually no built-in web UI other than for config setup
I use https://pinafore.social (I use this for mastodon too; it's great)
the GtS app implements the same API as mastodon so mobile apps like Tusky work with it despite being designed for masto. I've never used iOS so I can't offer a recommendation there, but whatever you use for masto should work for this too, other than known client incompatibilities tracked here: https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/projects/5
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@redlegoman@117net.co.uk no, there's no reason to use docker for something this basic
- download+untar release
- edit config file to set domain name, set DB to sqlite
- run admin account add
- set up DNS
- run server start in tmux
there's more to it if you're integrating with an existing nginx setup or if you want to swap the DB for postgres but that's not needed for most people
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@redlegoman@117net.co.uk glad you got it working! but that is like ... at least 2x or 3x more work vs what it takes to start a GtS node, haha
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@redlegoman@117net.co.uk sure; I mean if you're already familiar with the stack and have the beefy hardware to support it, I'm all for people installing masto; I'm just glad there's an alternative for other people like me
I already have to use docker at work so the idea of using it for my unpaid projects isn't very appealing
tmux isn't really anything like docker, no
the web GUI for GtS is provided by https://pinafore.social which I've been using even for my main masto account for years because it's much faster and more accessible than the masto frontend
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@ab@androiddev.social good question but unfortunately I don't think I'm the right person for a question like that
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@james@scl.csns.xyz what kind of search?
I know that there's currently a missing feature where hashtag search will only return contents from the local server itself; hashtags indexing remote contents is on the roadmap
if it's posts or accounts, maybe that's a different issue
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@tijs@social.lol @designbyadrian@indieweb.social it's hard to get the real numbers, but some estimates have been that the number of users has grown by 8x in the past week, and twitter hasn't even fully collapsed yet; one server reported the number of posts exchanged went up 20x in the past month
the bigger servers we have today can't keep up and badly need people on them to move off to less overloaded places, and that's just the growth that's come so far
imagine what will happen when twitter actually does finally stop working; there's no way we'll be able to keep up with the wave without adding more capacity
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@mcunille@techhub.social I'm not sure a question that broad has a useful answer tbh