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by riffic 4y ago
big servers are being roasted by ahem, unusual traffic demands. use a smaller server and make a monetary contribution to your admin if you find value in their offerings, as a way of saying thanks. There are two servers run by the Mastodon g
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by riffic 4y ago
edited: make a monetary contribution to the project along with your PR
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by riffic 4y ago
well when you throw a ton of HN traffic at it it'll probably cook the underlying components.
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by riffic 4y ago
Thoughtworks runs their own instance. They adopted Mastodon a very long time ago. https://toot.thoughtworks.com/about
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by riffic 4y ago
these large servers are being toasted right now beyond their capacity, which is giving the larger community a poor impression of this system. I'd recommend joining smaller instances or like, just running your own. WordPress with the AP
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by riffic 4y ago
Eugen is playing almost all roles singlehandedly and last said he was making around 35k a year. "I do software development, devops, accounting, customer support, project management, product design, public relations, and moderation for
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by riffic 4y ago
> No one uses these platforms. nO oNe UsEs MaDtOdOn I'm personally really tired of this trope, so instead of offering reasonable replies I'm just going to return the same spirit of ridicule back to you (despite HN guidelines,
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by riffic 4y ago
anyone can run their own instance and your dns verifies who you are. hint hint, all media outlets. you don't even need to use Mastodon. just put the underlying protocols (ActivityPub) in your CMS and assign internal users through your
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by riffic 4y ago
form follows function though.
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by riffic 4y ago
if you know you know.
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by riffic 4y ago
the actual published spec is a good place to start. w3.org
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by riffic 4y ago
don't worry about it? on good instances identity will be tied to membership in an LDAP or AD sort of thing, with membership handed out as a perk of employment for example. bad instances get treated like spam email sites.
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by riffic 4y ago
masto not masta
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by riffic 4y ago
it already exists
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by riffic 4y ago
that's kind of dismissive.
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by riffic 4y ago
the federated social web built upon ActivityPub, merely because it can not be put back inside the bottle. There will come along something more usable and interesting than Mastodon but talking the same standardized language for interoperabil
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by riffic 4y ago
verification has always been an arbitrary label, placed upon an account by someone inside Twitter (generally because they like you).
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by riffic 4y ago
Run a wordpress instead and put the ActivityPub plugin on it. There are many places you can host PHP/MySQL very effectively and it is much lighter in weight than Mastodon's stack.
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by riffic 4y ago
job apps are definitely not the way to score a job. they're for suckers. the best way is to work your network for a connection. Steve Dalton has the best literature on this concept.
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by riffic 4y ago
Waiting for Python 3.11 for Workgroups
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by riffic 4y ago
For context, Mastodon implements the ActivityPub protocol, the W3C derived protocol for interoperable social networks. There are other systems that speak AP, including PixelFed, PeerTube, Write.As, Pleroma, and WordPress with a specific p
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by riffic 4y ago
genealogy hobbyist here: descent from European antiquity can not be reliably determined: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_from_antiquity
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by riffic 4y ago
seems awfully a lot like a horoscope, just general enough to fit anyone's situation. edit: 13 matches (14 now) for the word horoscope in the thread, lol.
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by riffic 4y ago
really interesting! thank you for sharing.
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by riffic 4y ago
all recessions are inevitable. It's a feature of the business cycle for a trough-shaped period of time to occur. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_cycle
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by riffic 4y ago
necessary context: https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/10-18-2022-the-at-protocol the appropriate place to develop protocols is within IETF, W3C, or other open groups which I'm absolutely sure Twitter could have played a
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by riffic 4y ago
absolutely nothing wrong with working more than one job if you can get away with it. It's not a lifestyle I want to live myself, but more power to anyone who wants or needs to in order to make their livings.
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by riffic 4y ago
they know we're boned, and the only fix is geoengineering.
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by riffic 4y ago
one secret the fossil fuel companies don't want you to know!
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by riffic 4y ago
There's a discussion about that here involving one of the spec authors: https://octodon.social/@cwebber/100368138697354408

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