English 🇬🇧 / Polish 🇵🇱
Campaign slogan: #fedifreespeech

EN
Recently, there has been a discussion about censorship on Fediverse and the hot spot became the muting of the 101010.pl server by the mastodon.art instance and the opposition of several people. Do you know how the administration of your instance works? Do you know which servers are blocked and for what reason? Consider whether the censorship does not excessively limit your access to the community. Ask questions of your administration. Fight for freedom of expression!

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PL
Ostatnio pojawiła się dyskusja o cenzurze na Fediwersum a punktem zapalnym stało się wyciszanie serwera 101010.pl przez instancję mastodon.art i sprzeciw kilku osób. Czy wiesz, jak działa administracja Twojej instancji? Czy wiesz jakie serwery i z jakiego powodu blokuje administrator? Zastanów się, czy cenzura nie ogranicza nadmiernie Twojego dostępu do społeczności. Zadawaj pytania swojej administracji. Walcz o wolność wypowiedzi!

#fediverse #censorship #freedom #101010pl #mastodon #federation #instances #servers #blocked #block #censor #activitypub #blacklist #mastoart #toots #english #polish #polski #fedifreespeech

Where am I?

So… I’m writing again, and partaking in a little summer writing project (coined “Hot Blog Summer”) with my partner Dr. Lucy. Good gravy, folks, the amount of plugin clean-up I had to do to get this and my next post out is wild. 😅 While I’m editing my first meaty post, here’s how you can find me these days: Mastodon I’m over at irrsinn.life/@melissa, posting about Beat Saber, other games I’m playing, a bit of social justice stuff, and tech. Come chat with me there. I really don’t spend much time on Twitter these days aside from Future Proof Games work and folks I get push notifications for. Future Proof Games Yup, I’m still doing that whole game making thing with Gregory. 😁 All our stuff is over at futureproofgames.com, including all our games, our Twitch stream schedule, our podcast, and our newsletter. You can also find us on Twitter. Here’s some cool shit we’ve made that you should play: Exploit: Zero Day, a living puzzle game in which you’re a hacktivist fighting government and corporate overreach. The first season of story + the ability to make and share puzzles of your own is free. Rosette Diceless and its Companion, a table-top roleplaying system that focuses on collaborative storytelling and consent-based conflict resolution. “(I Fell in Love With) The Majesty of Colors” Remastered, an updated version of the game with remastered audio, interactivity, and effects. It’s playable on Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS. Twitch I stream sometimes. Definitely monthly for Future Proof, and sometimes between/around that. I’m usually playing cool indie stuff. Archives live over on irrsinn.video. Granny Square Colors Why yes, GSC is still running. It doesn’t get nearly the amount of attention from me that it deserves, but I do updates every so often and plenty of folks still use it. …That might be everywhere useful. I’m over on reddit, but unless you want to read about me being confused by tech stuff, that’s not too interesting.

https://irrsinn.net/?p=6822

#cats #dr-lucy #exploit-zero-day #future-proof #future-proof-games #games-and-gaming #granny-squares #gregory #majesty-of-colors #mastodon #podcast #rosette #rosette-diceless #social-media

Mastodon's Founder Says Trump's New Social Network Is Just Mastodon

'Truth Social', which will launch officially later in the year, is seemingly using Mastodon's codebase without credit.

Former President Donald Trump’s new social network ’Truth Social’ is seemingly a thinly disguised fork of popular social network codebase Mastodon.

Its terms also say that “all source code” of Truth Social is proprietary. That might run afoul of Mastodon’s own license.

“The main thing is that Mastodon is free software, released under the AGPLv3 license, so anyone can use it—provided they comply with the license. The main part of the license is making the source code and any modifications to it available to the public,” Rochko told Motherboard. With Truth Social saying that its code is proprietary “that would be a problem, as that would indicate a license violation,” Rochko added.

#Mastodon #TruthSocial #Trump #thief

https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgm5k/truth-social-is-mastodon-trump

If you run a federated social networking node/instance I'm really curious what kind of system resource usage you are seeing.

I run Friendica and I really love it, but it's also the single largest source maintenance on my VPS. The database is huge, the ext storage is huge. PHP requests also constantly trigger slow logs to the point I gave Friendica it's own fpm pool with a sixty second slow log trigger and two minute timeout. The problem is, however, that I don't know if this is normal for of all social instances (i.e. mastodon, pleroma, etc.).

That said, I've noticed Friendica getting faster with development over time and the Friendica devs are amazing! They are fast to give support help or answer some of my more ignorant questions with patience. This is huge to me and outweighs the resource issues for the most part.

Still, I'm just curious if every federated project is this resource heavy, and maybe it's just a requisite of implementing the ActivityPub and other protocols... or maybe I'm doing something wrong ha. I don't know, I just want to get a feel for this from other administrators!

System resource usage for Friendica on social.linuxlusers.com:
CPU: Negligible
RAM: Negligible
MySQL (mariadb): 14gb (after fresh optimize)
Storage dir: 9gb
Proxy dir: 4gb

If there's any info I should add let me know and I'll post it. I have only a couple of sim-regular users, but I've had a couple hundred of (apparently) fake accounts. I manually remove the obvious ones that post spam or have obvious marketing names, but the vast majority never seem to do anything on the site, so I utilize the feature to remove old accounts after a certain number of months inactive. I also have fairly conservative data-retention settings for the proxy and elsewhere in settings.

Please share your experiences if you can! 😀

#Friendica #Mastodon #Pleroma #Fediverse #Federated #federatedweb #Serveradmins #selfhosted