I don't have experience running a Mastodon server, but I notice they are under heavy load at the moment and have much delays. I have experience running a Pleroma and a Friendica server for myself. Based on that, I think if you are going to run a small server for a group of friends or family, please use Pleroma instead. For more users, especially those you don't know personally, you may need the extra moderation tools Mastodon has, but else Pleroma is much lighter. You can also consider Friendica, especially if it's only a personal server.

For costs it should be under €10 per month, maybe €3, depending how you set it up. I have in the past run Pleroma on a €3,50/month node while connected to a busy relay.
#FediAdmin

The iCarly (reboot) season two episode "i'M Wild and Crazy" reminded me of this back story, since they're playing the same game in the episode and Carly is also 'the good one' (or as she feels in the show, the boring one).
#iCarly #MirandaCosgrove
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Gidi Kroon

2022-05-14 15:19:18

Another week, there were more people there for the live, including the guy who plays their father in the show (Patrick Warburton). They were playing a game of Never Have I Ever, and when the question came up of sneaking out of the window to go to a party your parents had forbidden you to go to, all eyes turned to Mia since her image is a bit of trouble personified (I can't speak for the real her of course). But she never had done that. Slowly they saw that only Miranda had her hand raised, having ever done that before, causing him to say in his deep booming voice: "No! Not the Good One!", which incidentally is literally a line from the show.

I can read my viewer comments without bursting into tears!

-- Carly
#iCarly

Great interview with Jenna Ortega, where she talks about Wednesday, creating a character and working together with Tim Burton.
(They fixed the link!)
#JennaOrtega #Wednesday #WednesdayNetflix

highsnobiety.com/p/jenna-ortega…

highsnobiety

2022-11-17 15:07:12

JENNA ORTEGA FOR HIGHSNOBIETY FRONTPAGE 143 hsnob.co/1or5c

Everybody has their own way to look at films and tv shows, either focusing on the story, the director, the meaning, etc. For me it's the way the characters are written and acted.

So I've arrived at the later episodes of House of the Dragon and have a later seasons of Game of Thrones deja-vu. Maybe the characters after the time jumps can be interesting but since they're totally not consistent with the characters as they were before, I'm not into it. It's like Alicent and Rhaenyra have switched bodies, Freaky Friday style.

Actually 'Van Gogh' is pronounced 'Van Gog', but with the letters pronounced as their actual letters rather than as English.

(Regarding previous reshare: sounds close enough...)

#PeerTube has a neat opt-in mechanism in place to alleviate the fediverse ddos problem of popular videos: it's what they call redundancy. Servers that opt-in can share the load on new, trending or popular videos. Your browser, when playing a video, will fragment by fragment decide which server to get the content from, giving a smooth stream no matter what the load. The only extra requirement is that the original server is still online.

BTW, offloading storage and serving via cdn are also really easy in PeerTube, so you can go that route as well.

#feditip To open a thread, click the date or time of the post. Depending on the platform you're on (true for most, including Mastodon) click the date or time again to open the thread on the original server. Only then you get a proper view of the posts in the thread.

Do this before replying. Someone else may have responded already!

I still love how Brittany Murphy and Alicia Silverstone played opposite each other in Clueless, essentially rotating their characters opposite each other, like one of those fairground teacups. Not unlike Brittany Murphy and Dakota Fanning in Uptown Girls, which actually features those teacups. Still miss Brittany.
#Clueless #BrittanyMurphy #AliciaSilverstone #DakotaFanning #UptownGirls #MovieBowl

Derek

2022-11-18 15:08:07

1995 #MovieBowl Semifinal #1

When I see some php-based projects that don't just work but work well (e.g. Wordpress, Friendica) and consider the scope of the functionality they try to achieve and the characteristics of the language, I'm wondering how are these even working at all? Must be some magic(*).

(*) talented open source developers

Apparently if I quote-share a post and add a link, the link preview gets presented as part of the shared post.

And if the shared post has an abstract (content warning) that's different from the one on my post, it will be used on my post anyway...

There's a meme going around Twitter that I thought was quite funny, essentially it's people saying things 'before it burns down', like wishing followers a merry Christmas. But then I saw this BBC story and it can really all crash on Monday... Apparently after Musk demanded employees to work long hours or quit, most have quit.
BBC News - Twitter locks staff out of offices until next week
bbc.co.uk/news/business-636723…

Twitter locks staff out of offices until next week

It comes amid reports that large numbers of workers have resigned from the social media platform.

^{By James Clayton in San Francisco and Peter Hoskins in Singapore (BBC News)}

Gidi Kroon

2022-11-18 12:11:20

@The research fairy I thought it was the first and you just got exposed to a meme going around there today, but then I saw a BBC story where they quote someone who says that it could fall down by Monday. So I guess it's the latter...

Single point of failure

vs

Single point of fixing things

"Honestly, I look at you and I don't know if you need a cuddle or an exorcism"

-- Hayley
#AdultMaterial

That's a fun little game!

Sven

2022-11-16 19:07:53

If you ever felt (or knew) that most “just the tip of the iceberg“ slide illustrations look kinda wrong, you can put any iceberg to the test and see how it floats. :D

joshdata.me/iceberger.html

Iceberger

^joshdata.me

Proof that announcing a book on the fediverse can also lead to sales... This is "Anatomical Oddities" by @Prof Alice Roberts . Just arrived today!
#AliceRoberts #AnatomicalOddities

Many people are worrying about what will happen next, now it may be that Russian bombs have landed and killed in Poland, a Nato country. A few years ago Russia shot down a whole airliner killing all people on board, and nothing happened. Why would today be any different?

(Something, nonviolent, should have happened so maybe we wouldn't be here today)

Great photos of the honourees including Jenna Ortega. Note that the link they give accesses the original, full, non-watermarked photos, in case you like such a thing.

Critics Choice Awards

2022-11-15 00:53:09

Check out some of our FAV pics 🔥from last night @imdbpro portrait studio with our Celebrate Latino Cinema honorees
More at from the IMDB PRO GALLERY LINK at dam.gettyimages.com/assignments/im… dam.gettyimages.com/assignments/im…

#celebratelatinocinema @jennaortega @IsmaelC_C #CriticsChoice