My logs are actually rammed with entries like the above. It's not a helpful UA, so what is it doing? Being a POST I'm pretty certain it's not crawling but I'm also not following all that many (if any in fact) Threads users?
@jan I think, funnily enough, that this is Facebook following ActivityPub more closely than Mastodon - specifically the parts around Inbox Forwarding, which Mastodon doesn't do.
It's the reason people invent things like #FediFetcher
WOW WOW WOW is my initial reaction to the Ditto community server
It is exactly what Nostr needs and what I had hoped atproto would have
It is even compatible with Mastodon API
--previosly nostr relays, storage and ids were complicated
--atproto lacks the ease for self hosters to build their communities compared to those on activitypub
I'm currently trying to migrate a #mastodon server from masto.host to self-hosted and having problems (I already shut down the server, so I'm posting from an old account).
Does somebody know which files in the backup are which in the mastodon migration guide?
I'm also having trouble with restoring the PostgreSQL backup ('pg_restore: error: connection to server on socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432" failed: FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user "mastodon"').
Thanks for any help!
(It would be nice if someone could boost this, because given that this is an old account, I don't think many people would see this post otherwise.)
@bruno You definitely do. Or at least spend a bit more for something like a DigitalOcean droplet. Though you'd at least need SOME knowledge to do that, but they do have a "one-click droplet" to get things started pretty easily.
I pay about $30 a month and don't run into these storage issues because my instance is linked to a backblaze object storage account. I easily keep about 300 gb in there for about $3.50-$4 a month, the rest of the cost comes from DigitalOcean
@BeAware@bruno I'm pretty sure you can get a lot cheaper than $30/mo for 300GB if you look for the right host - I'm at a total of $12/mo for 100GB on arson.wtf and i allocated an overkill amount of cpu & memory to the vps
A lot of the no-fucks-given pillaging of web content to train #ai and #llms doesn't surprise me. But this revelation actually shocked me. Automattic has been pulling data from SELF HOSTED#WordPress blogs by means of its JetPack plugin and then selling it.
The truth is that Automattic has been selling access to this “firehose” of posts for years, for a variety of purposes. This includes selling access to self-hosted blogs and websites that use a popular plugin called Jetpack; Automattic edited its original “protecting user choice” statement this week to say it will exclude Jetpack from its deals with “select AI companies.”
My understanding of the current #spam issues is that it is people taking advantage of open registration instances. Essentially hijacking.. which is causing small-instance admins like me to domain-block those instances for sanity.
Question: Assuming the spammers will eventually be removed from the victim instances, is there a 'whitelist’ somewhere that #MastoAdmins#SelfHost community could consult so we can unblock domains that should no longer be a problem?
@chris Hopefully folks unblocking post to #fediblock. I think I saw one post here earlier, and that resulted in us re-federating an instance that got their stuff under control.
I'll definitely post when i'm the one to turn federation to an instance back on due to spam cleanup, but I'm just one instance admin :)
I’d like some suggestions (feel free to boost). I run a small club (80-100 people) and we need to collect annual dues. The actual payment processing I want to use PayPal (or similar). But for the membership management, tracking who has paid, emailing reminders, etc I want to #selfhost. I want to run a web site where people can login, see their dues status, get a link to go pay, cancel their membership, update their details, etc.
Anybody know some software I can run in like a #homelab or #selfhosted environment to manage club membership and stuff? The only constraint is that it can’t be Windows based. I don’t have any Windows infrastructure.