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.
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#DafneKeen #HisDarkMaterials
marieclaire.co.uk/entertainmen…
Dafne Keen: "Ed Sheeran named his daughter Lyra and we all had a bit of a freakout."
Dafne Keen on the final season of His Dark Materials, her new starring role in Star Wars’ The Acolyte and the best advice Hugh Jackman shared with her…Sarah-Rose Harrison (Marie Claire UK)
#DafneKeen #MarieClaire #HisDarkMaterials
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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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.
#ThePeripheral #AnjliMohindra #ChloëGraceMoretz
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#JennaOrtega #Wired
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Jenna Ortega Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions | WIRED
'Wednesday' star Jenna Ortega answers the web's most searched questions about herself. Is Jenna Ortega related to Gina Rodriguez? Is Jenna a Libra? Is she fr...YouTube
#iCarly #MiaSerafino #MirandaCosgrove
Mia Serafino - IMDb
Mia Serafino, Actress: Beef. Mia Serafino was born on April 19, 1989 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She is an actress, known for Beef, Crowded (2016) and Shameless (2011).Mia Serafino (IMDb)
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My boss, Matt Mullenweg, the boss of Automattic, owner of Tumblr, is looking for ex-Twitter employees for Tumblr, saying,
"we're putting on a fast track to see how they can help super-charge Tumblr. We can't absorb thousands of people, but I'd be open to hiring entire teams if they already work great together."
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Our "work with us" page: automattic.com/work-with-us/
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being blunt, I'm far more interested in his wanting to have a Tumblr ActivityPub interconnect.
#YouNetflix #You #AmyLeighHickman
And let's be honest. Many white 'liberals' and 'progressives' feel like they have some ownership of the fedi and can dictate what the culture is rather than being amenable to it changing as the user base grows and diversifies.
Many white people feel like they can very rudely make demands of people they don't know and expect people to acquiesce. And that's just unearned entitlement.
There are always growing pains when any platform has gains that have just happened over the last couple of weeks. We need patience, care, and understanding to let the culture grow organically.
What we don't need is white people bitterly complaining that their fabricated view of the world is changing because reality is no longer deniable.
Drink some water and shut the fuck up. You're not in any danger. LOL, you're just a bigot. You'll be fine.
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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
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JENNA ORTEGA FOR HIGHSNOBIETY FRONTPAGE 143 hsnob.co/1or5c
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#JennaOrtega #Wednesday
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.
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#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!
For anyone doing reports / research on the #fediverse, I'd like to inform you that I've been involved in many media interviews over the years, and have managed to save most of them to my #PeerTube channel @deadsuperhero
Here is a brief thread of the ones I think might be most useful.
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Sean Tilley - Diaspora Is the Future (Adam VS The Man Interview)
One of my favorite interviews, where I sat in with Adam Kokesh. It is here that I really started learning how to articulate some of the values of federated networks, with an emphasis on having personal control over how an individual experiences said …Spectra
Steal This Show S04EP20 - Into the Fediverse with Sean Tilley
This was a fun interview for the Steal This Show podcast, where I talked about some ongoing developments in the fediverse, such as the rise of Mastodon, the interop between different platforms, the cultural clashes, instance blocking, and the arrival…Spectra
I've saved the best for last. This is the unedited full interview for MontrealSauce with @sikkdays and @pauldl where I go deep into the history and rationale about why this stuff is important.
spectra.video/w/hsaCxCPa1nKw5t…
Montreal Sauce - Decentralization, Free Software, and the Fediverse
Okay, here we are! Finally! This is my favorite interview so far, and the one I enjoyed the most out of all the ones I've done.Spectra
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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
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Federation – what flows where, and why?
With all of the recent hullabaloo with Gab, and then, today Kiwi Farms joining the fediverse, there has been a lot of people asking questions about how data flows in the fediverse and what exposure they actually have.ariadne.space
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One of the first business applications I wrote, when I was 19, had an error condition that would output "This can't be happening ..." on the console.
It did this often during everyday operation and after several years at the company I still hadn't gone back to check why it was in fact happening.
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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
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
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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)
@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...
"Honestly, I look at you and I don't know if you need a cuddle or an exorcism"
-- Hayley
#AdultMaterial
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That's a fun little game!
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
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
#JennaOrtega #JimmyKimmel
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Jenna Ortega on Playing Wednesday Addams, Going to Disney Prom & Being Against All Dipping Sauces
Jenna talks about doing McDonalds commercials as a kid, not being into dipping food, Disney having a prom for their young stars, playing Wednesday Addams in ...YouTube
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in reply to Gidi Kroon • •I found that scaling up by adding a node is better than making one node bigger, for two reasons:
On AWS the cheapest node is t3a.nano, which is 2vCpu, 500MB. For double the cost, you can get t3a.micro, which is 2vCpu, 1GB (so the same cpu's) or for that same price you can get two t3a.nano's which does amount to double the cpu (or hyperthreads actually).
You can separate the database from the application by putting them on different nodes. Then you can run multiple applications on the same node (e.g. my PeerTube and Pleroma are on the same node). The idea is this: the chance that both applications are active (receiving a message e.g.) at exactly the same time is rather low. The chance that an application and its own database are active at the same time is closer to 100%. So having different cpu threads reserved for those really helps, to avoid your application and your database fighting each other.
Some caveats: on t3a.nano your average cpu usage should remain under 5% to avoid extra costs. For t3a.micro that's 10%. A Pleroma server runs along at 3% normally, Peer
... show moreI found that scaling up by adding a node is better than making one node bigger, for two reasons:
On AWS the cheapest node is t3a.nano, which is 2vCpu, 500MB. For double the cost, you can get t3a.micro, which is 2vCpu, 1GB (so the same cpu's) or for that same price you can get two t3a.nano's which does amount to double the cpu (or hyperthreads actually).
You can separate the database from the application by putting them on different nodes. Then you can run multiple applications on the same node (e.g. my PeerTube and Pleroma are on the same node). The idea is this: the chance that both applications are active (receiving a message e.g.) at exactly the same time is rather low. The chance that an application and its own database are active at the same time is closer to 100%. So having different cpu threads reserved for those really helps, to avoid your application and your database fighting each other.
Some caveats: on t3a.nano your average cpu usage should remain under 5% to avoid extra costs. For t3a.micro that's 10%. A Pleroma server runs along at 3% normally, PeerTube much less. So this sort of works out. But the database nodes with all the extra traffic nowadays were using just above 5%, so I did put these on t3a.micro nodes for now. For Friendica and other PHP applications the calculation is totally different, as it's actually only Apache that runs as an application, no matter how many sites are behind that (for me, two Friendica's, Zap, Osada and Wordpress, for now); but also then, having the mariadb on a separate node helps.