Post 1939644 by r3bl@r3bl.social
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(DIR) Post #1929154 by rysiek@mastodon.social
2018-12-12T10:00:32Z
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This is a reminder that "Mastodon is Dead in the Water" post is over 1.5 year old now and both Mastodon and the Fediverse are going strong:https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-is-dead-in-the-water-888c10e8abb1I like the irony of sharing this link here.
(DIR) Post #1939641 by mjjzf@mstdn.io
2018-12-12T10:09:16Z
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@rysiek The original logic of few-but-very-popular-instances-survive is still valid. I do not have the impression that it is all that easy to knock up for self-hosting?
(DIR) Post #1939642 by bikecurious@whomst.dog
2018-12-12T13:30:02Z
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@mjjzf @rysiek Hrm? Self-hosting isn't a herculean task, the worst issue we've seen is disk filling :PHonestly, I don't see why most users couldn't run a small instance for themselves and their friends, its not an overwhelming task...
(DIR) Post #1939643 by mjjzf@mstdn.io
2018-12-12T13:55:32Z
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@bikecurious @rysiek I am always concerned with things like server setup, security and updates. I can have a server ready in a moment.
(DIR) Post #1939644 by r3bl@r3bl.social
2018-12-12T17:15:32Z
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@mjjzf @bikecurious @rysiek I would recommend you to try Nextcloud Social.While Mastodon updates are mostly painless, they're not one-click-in-a-web-interface painless.Both Nextcloud and its apps can be updated directly from the web interface, without touching the terminal. Nextcloud also gives you recommendations on how to secure it and offers an external security scanner to make sure you get it right.
(DIR) Post #1939645 by animeirl@social.homunyan.com
2018-12-12T20:44:58Z
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@r3bl @mjjzf @bikecurious @rysiek nextcloud is insanely slow and buggy though
(DIR) Post #1939703 by rysiek@mastodon.social
2018-12-12T20:47:14Z
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@animeirl @r3bl @mjjzf @bikecurious not my experience (and we have an instance with ~100 users)
(DIR) Post #1944737 by rpcutts@brainvom.it
2018-12-12T23:29:26Z
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@bikecurious @mjjzf @rysiek depends what you mean by 'most users'. If you mean a plurality of the software community folk / IT hobbyists that make up a chunk of the current mastodon demographic, then maybe that's fair. But if you mean general social media users then I disagree immensely.
(DIR) Post #1944738 by enkiv2@eldritch.cafe
2018-12-12T23:55:51Z
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@rpcutts I think we overestimate the difficulty (and underestimate the ability of non-technical users) at our peril. Everybody can paste things from a web page into a box.@bikecurious @mjjzf @rysiek
(DIR) Post #1944739 by loke@functional.cafe
2018-12-13T00:56:44Z
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@enkiv2Getting it to run is not the biggest problem. I'm sure you can build something that everyone can deploy. Solving problems that eventually happens will be harder. There may be a market for hosted solutions that would solve this for anyone who wants to run their own instance but don't want to maintain it. @rpcutts @bikecurious @mjjzf @rysiek
(DIR) Post #1944740 by rpcutts@brainvom.it
2018-12-13T01:12:52Z
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@loke @enkiv2 @bikecurious @mjjzf @rysiek agree
(DIR) Post #1944741 by kelbot@fosstodon.org
2018-12-13T01:21:31Z
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@rpcutts @loke @enkiv2 @bikecurious @mjjzf @rysiek This already exists.https://masto.host/
(DIR) Post #1954466 by bikecurious@whomst.dog
2018-12-13T11:12:12Z
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@rysiek @animeirl @r3bl @mjjzf Wrt Nextcloud, I'm impressed with how it can reliably keep 4 cores pegged on a server rendering just one page. I thought other PHP projects had issues, but Nextcloud has definitely raised the bar and made me reconsider past judgements.I would shut the Nextcloud VM I host down, but it keeps my toes toasty and my BF tolerates the 10+ second load times. Home hosting does have fringe benefits :P
(DIR) Post #1954467 by mjjzf@mstdn.io
2018-12-13T11:14:55Z
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@bikecurious @rysiek @animeirl @r3bl I actually find it more useful as a service provider; i access the files, calendar, tasks and contacts from other apps, and that part is pretty efficient - calling up the PHP pages is a bit sluggish.
(DIR) Post #1954468 by bikecurious@whomst.dog
2018-12-13T11:23:18Z
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@mjjzf @rysiek @animeirl @r3bl Wow, your sounding like my BF right now. The Nextcloud apps I've regularly fails to upload files, though they are a touch faster. Still super sluggish (taking seconds for each task) considering they're running on a beefy VM.
(DIR) Post #1954469 by animeirl@social.homunyan.com
2018-12-13T11:27:27Z
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@bikecurious @mjjzf @rysiek @r3bl I wanted self hosted backups but the desktop app will hang indefinitely if it encounters a single mp3 file and will stop syncing or doing any other functions. It's a joke.
(DIR) Post #1980069 by bikecurious@whomst.dog
2018-12-14T11:15:23Z
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@animeirl @mjjzf @rysiek @r3bl Yeah, bugs like what you describe are prevalent in NextCloud, which makes it very painful to use. Wish it weren't such a mess :c
(DIR) Post #2624654 by cabalamat@mastodon.technology
2018-12-13T01:40:23Z
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@rysiek it seems to me that Mastodon, the Fediverse and ActivityPub are getting more any more attention. BTW yesterday I started coding MeowCat, my fediverse project.
(DIR) Post #2624655 by rysiek@mastodon.social
2018-12-13T08:53:43Z
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@cabalamat what's the project about? :)
(DIR) Post #2624656 by cabalamat@mastodon.technology
2019-01-04T04:34:22Z
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@rysiek MeowCat is basically a macroblogging platform with built0in wiki, It's optimised for writing long posts, but it will also be easy to write short ones. It uses Markdown. Part of my motivation for writing it is I don't likke any of the blogging / social media platforms I've used. Plus the federated aspect is very important to me. I want to get back to when the internet was a world of ends, unlike now when a few big actors control everything.
(DIR) Post #2624657 by clacke@libranet.de
2019-01-04T06:24:17Z
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@cabalamat @rysiek An AP Bliki? I like.#meowcat