Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
Keith Whyte
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The insecure "software supply chain" is the result of large corporations incorporating open-source software into their highly profitable, mass market software, without providing resources to those open-source projects. The only real solution is to provide those resources to those projects, but since this is a cost-cutting measure, that is unlikely to happen.
Given the massive influx into #fediverse over the last few days, make that:
!! RUN MORE INSTANCES !!
The irish have come up with a pretty cool hasttag to identify themselves across the fediverse: #Mastodaoine
@kie
Yes, I feel that ultimately, the logistics of administration is going to be the crux of it all. Both the human resources required for... what can we call it? Social administration? and the tech resources required to stay online and scale. (computer hardware, electricity, etc)
Which to my mind is one more reason to keep your instance small!
Best case scenario here is that somehow #mastodon instances remain small, community based, serving to bring people together rather than keep them divided in fear, with just the right amount of cross over to stop filter bubbles. something that always would elude twitter.
Turning things upside down, it suddenly occurs to me that #fediverse could have the inverse effect of what is expected.
Twitter, as far as I can make out, generally goes like this:
Somebody who for whatever reason, makes something, builds something, or does some research, etc and makes a post of genuine interest about it, often linked to a blog or a publication.
several 100 or 1000 (maybe people, maybe bots) post one liner (often hateful, sometimes trying to be witty) noise on the thread.
@ciaby
My test instance has been down a few times.
I don't know what the back off retry times are for instances that are not responding, but a few hours down seems to be enough to stop the normal flow.
I don't know what it might take to get all back to normal after years. Does an instance "push" posts to all followers? Or should they poll in some cases? I guess this is all documented some place.
@ciaby
I deleted it and reposted. (aka edited ) Probably your instance did not process the delete before showing you the new one. You definately cannot vote?
@ciaby
It might well be slow, it's running on a VM connected to its public IP server via VPN. There's a couple of NAT forwards there in between, I'm actually surprised that this causes the slow down that it does and I'm still not sure why. But I haven't seen the error you describe.
BTW, It got distributed-SYN-attack'ed recently, so I added some rules (on pfSense) to rate limit that, and limit the max number of concurrent firewall states, but I have since removed them again.
How useful is the federated timeline on your instance?
(Or if you have multiple accounts, on the largest instance you use)
@thegrugq @spaf
I don't see that the federated timeline scales at all. It would seem totally pointless on anything other than a small instance (< 30 or so) active users. It may be that mastodon was conceived more this way - plenty of small instances. The way it is going now with a lot of people loading certain instances is possibly a failure for #fediverse
I tried a poll about this a while back:
https://mamut.tic-ac.org/@keith/109093588742625210
Keith Whyte
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@ummjackson
A possibly interesting question here is does "social networking" make any sense outside of a closed centralised technology? Given that is where digital social networking was conceived.
Migration from twitter to mastodon to do the same (twitter) thing here is pointless, and the only real migration that makes sense is a migration away from screen and keyboard to favour human interaction.
Maybe #mastodon has a role to play here.
@ummjackson
Good.
The worst thing for #Mastodon would be to replace (as in become) twitter.
Ahora pueden donar a #TIC con @circles@mas.to 😃
https://circles.garden/profile/0xfba64287b96824BBab0E087D15F1e59A8747Cdb2
Keith Whyte
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You know the #fediverse isn’t just #Mastodon, right? :)
Do you live stream? Check out https://owncast.online
It’s a lightweight free and open live-steaming server. (We use it at Small Technology Foundation for our streams at https://owncast.small-web.org)
And you can follow people’s Owncast servers from the fediverse and get notified when they’re about to start streaming, etc. (e.g., hit the follow button on our stream and enter your Mastodon/fediverse account) 
@aral
Cool. And meanwhile, don't forget that we can all keep working towards a society based on justice and mutual respect, where authority works for the people and not the other way round.
So renember, Signal runs on AWS so we might want to consider if supporting that mega corporation alines with the above in any way.
Also, if you are really, really, really concerned about privacy, better not connect any devices to the public Internet at all. Especially not "phones"
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
