Notices by Lohan Gunaweera (lohang@mastodon.social)

@administrator @simsa04 Hope you saw the updates by @bashrc https://gitlab.com/bashrc2/epicyon/-/issues/51#note_1195533627

@administrator @simsa04 I just reported this issue to Epicyon developer : https://gitlab.com/bashrc2/epicyon/-/issues/51

Hope it gets resolved as soon as practical.

Please don't campaign for instance-blocking because a particular post appeared in your timeline. There are better and healthier ways to deal with objectionable posts : report the particular post and the account to the instance admin, block the user from your account. Instance-blocking without reasonable grounds (just because you can) harms the #fediverse.

I am a bit shaken by the aggressive nature of those who campaign for instance-blocking right now.

Context :

https://mastodon.social/@atomicpoet/109441617731363268

@simsa04 As far as I can see, there are no such restrictions on mastodon.social . Posts from other instances usually appear among search results.

How does a newly started #fediverse instance grow its network? I have noticed that even when I follow my own #Epicyon account at @lohang@social.alochana.net from here (mastodon.social) and boost posts coming from that account when I think it is relevant, those hashtagged posts don't appear among search results on mastodon.social.

@keith A slightly modified version started playing in my head :

Thinking that the #fediverse needs to copy choices made by #Mastodon is like thinking your local pizza joint needs to copy choices made by Dominos.

@mako Don't you have your office in that building? :)

@administrator @simsa04 Thanks very much!

@simsa04 Yes, I will continue to use this account for a while. What I share on the self-hosted instance will be slightly different from what I post here.

Good idea, I will file an issue about the federation problem with GS.

@simsa04 Thank you! Yes, I noticed I could not follow you either. Yours was one of the first accounts I tried to follow. I hope this gets resolved soon. Sad to see GNUSocial getting left behind in the fediverse.

I am happy to report that I found an affordable, small server and the software that fits it better. I now have my own self-hosted fedi instance at @lohang@social.alochana.net , powered by #epicyon . Please feel free to follow me there as well. I don't intend to bulk migrate my follows. I will instead continue to use this account as well, while making a soft transition by subscribing to people that I actively engage with. I am concerned about not being able to follow GNUSocial users. Let us see how this evolves :)

Went server-shopping for the Mastodon instance and ended up shocked. This doesn't look sustainable. The economic crisis has made my money worthless.

@tk VPS

@tk Linode, Digital Ocean, gandi, 1984 and several others that offer "cheaper" prices but do not accept credit card payments. The issue is with my currency which completely collapsed over the past year.

@tk Netcup is the most affordable and stable provider I found, but they ask for something weird : a selfie with my ID card with English or German translation, and a piece of paper with your order. The thing about running a fediverse software is that it is resource hungry by design. It will pull in remote content. That demands loads of storage than a regular VPS.

@simsa04 GNUSocial now supports ActivityPub. So the problem has been solved from the other end :) And that is why you and I can communicate like this, GS < > Mastodon.

Btw, I am launching my own single-user instance on Sunday. Will share details and stuff, so anyone can replicate it if they like.

@mattl
Congratulations, doctor! :)

@bkeegan @cfiesler Why do you call it Mastodon (protocol)? Was there an article with that name? If there was, it is erroneous and misleading. There is Mastodon (software) though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software)

This is the coolest forum software I have seen. Very simple and elegant. Aesthetically pleasing : https://forum.merveilles.town/

@simsa04 @fu I gave it a try from this side. But Mastodon fails to identify it as an account (or anything that I can subscribe to). This is a known situation with Mastodon.