The great Twitter migration

[scooke]

@fbartels and others. If you look in the Minio topic of the forum you'll find some posts from me about using Minio with Mastodon. There is simply no other way to do this while on Cloudron, unless you have a huge VPS and run only Mastodon. If you federate with your instance, you are going to rack up a lot of data being stored. I'm going to post something about this on Mastodon for all those new users. Most I think have signed up on someone else's instance, and whoever runs those probably knows about the storage demands. But the new self-hosters are in for a shock after a few weeks of federation fun!

[fbartels]

@scooke thanks. I found your instructions on https://forum.cloudron.io/post/50215

Yes, those storage heavy apps definitely benefit from blob storage like s3/minio. I just did not expect that much of storage was needed for mastodon, even if it at max caches 7 days.

[robi]

They could benefit from a rate of cache growth metric.

There's data and then there's speed of data.

[LeeW]

This is just like so many similar situations of the past where people get spooked, rush to something different but ultimately revert back.

Much like the cPanel issue where so many said cPanel would die because of the pricing hikes. Never happened. Quite a few went to DirectAdmin but it was the lowend budget hosts that had to move to something cheaper.

Same thing here, people appear to switch to Mastodon but they soon realise it's not all that and most have likely already gone back to Twitter.

[scooke]

@LeeW The masses, sure. But the topics I'm interested in... those posters and their instances are going strong. It is sooooo nice to follow these accounts (whose account at a given instance reveals all the other cool accounts) and get a nice stream of interesting, pertinent info and shares.

[doodlemania2]

Mastodon 4 just released! Excited for the update to flow through (cc: @girish ) - do note there appears to be a two step upgrade process.

Also - for folks running their own instance, please do feel free to set up to relay against my open relay I offer as a community service if you like - it will help populate your federated timeline nice and quick! (https://mastodon-relay.thedoodleproject.net).

[jamesgallagher]

@doodlemania2 That's a nice thing to do - helps a lot in the early days of a new instance

[shanelord01]

I'm running my own and you can find me at https://social.shas.am/@shanelord

I like the idea that I'm not reliant on others to maintain the site, although it is a bit quieter with only me as a user.

Anyone have any relays they recommend that are currently open for sign-ups?

I'm using:
https://relay.berserker.town/inbox
https://relay.libranet.de/inbox
https://relay.mistli.net/inbox

Not sure if they're all still open, but I'm finding it hard to find others to strenghten the federated feed.

I have also added @doodlemania2 https://mastodon-relay.thedoodleproject.net/inbox also, but it doesn't seem to have completed connection as it still says waiting for approval.

Thanks,
Shane.

[shanelord01]

I have also added @doodlemania2 https://mastodon-relay.thedoodleproject.net/inbox also, but it doesn't seem to have completed connection as it still says waiting for approval.

This is now working.

[doodlemania2]

@shanelord01 (waves) it auto-approves after a few minutes assuming your side is set up cleanly - I see you and welcome!

Many people have tried to relay over the past few weeks. Some don't have SSL (hard pass), some are using fake FQDN (hard pass), and then of course, we had a few bad actors come along and I had to boot em.

Be mindful of your blocks and mutes - whole instance blocking is a big sledgehammer unless it's just a whole instance of bad. Also, if you see someone on my relay and you're like, ewe, Derek should know about that, please ping me (at)derek(at)toot.thedoodleproject.net - I am watching but it's a LOT to watch and any visibility on bad instances is appreciated - let me know and I'll block em at the relay.