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  1. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 13-Mar-2023 14:21:51 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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    Expect some outages to all !fnetworks servers over the next few days. We're updating and rebooting the underlying software.
    In conversation about 13 days ago from mustard permalink
  2. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 17:44:22 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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    !fnetworks There was an outage on SUR1, which currently hosts both the nu and n0 instances. The disk filled up during an overnight backup, taking down the database. I am currently investigating whether there's a misconfigured log in logrotate.
    In conversation about 3 months ago from Choqok permalink
  3. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 05:12:12 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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    Created a #Friendica account on Libranet.de ... it very quickly asked to add my contacts from here and is in the midst of attempting to do so. !fnetworks will be adding a Friendica instance once I have some funds for another #VPS.
    In conversation about 3 months ago from Choqok permalink
  4. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 00:29:50 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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    • Ji Fu
    @fu All !fnetworks instances are currently #OStatus only.

    I plan to upgrade them soon.
    In conversation about 4 months ago from mustard permalink
  5. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 18:55:50 UTC simsa04 simsa04
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    Why the Mastodon-network slowly strangles the #fediverse

    https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/

    « If ActivityPub (the protocol) and Mastodon (a server that adheres to that protocol) were designed to incentivise decentralisation, having more instances in the network would not be a problem. In fact, it would be the sign of a healthy, decentralised network.

    However, ActivityPub and Mastodon are designed the same way Big Tech/Big Web is: to encourage services that host as many “users” as they can.

    This design is both complex (which makes it difficult and expensive to self-host) and works beautifully for Big Tech (where things are centralised and scale vertically and where the goal is to get/own/control/exploit as many users as possible).

    In Big Tech, the initial cost of obtaining such scale is subsidised by vast amounts of venture capital [...]

    However, unlike Big Tech, the stated goal of the fediverse is to decentralise things, not centralise them. Yet how likely is it we can achieve the opposite of Big Tech’s goals while adopting its same fundamental design?

    When you adopt the design of a thing, you also inherit the success criteria that led to the evolution of that design. If that success criteria does not align with your own goals, you have a problem on your hands.»

    #decentralisation #fediverse #federation !gnusocial !fnetworks
    In conversation about 4 months ago from gnusocial.net permalink

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    1. Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”)
      Every time I post something that gets lots of engagement, I essentially end up carrying out a denial of service attack on myself. What does this say about the design of Mastodon and ActivityPub and the future of the fediverse?
  6. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 07-Nov-2022 23:51:46 UTC simsa04 simsa04
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    • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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    • Ji Fu
    @lnxw48a1 @fu
    If I may pitch in on on th etopic of "how the fediverse works"...

    Yes, you can explain it with the image of email and email providers. But you rely on "freedom" (whose?) to describe a structure that doesn't explain why newbies can and cannot subscribe to other people or otherwise interact with accounts and posts.

    A different way is stop putting "freedom" into the centre – which in itself is a rather problematic hierarchical approach as it invokes the imagery of landlords dealing with their rowdy tenants – and explain to people the basics of #federation, from which most of the peculiarities and problems of fediverse interactions arise.

    2015 I wrote a piece for Twitter migrants to GNUsocial primarily from the angle of a layperson, explaining the various oddities by pointing to and explaining from federation as the root cause. Perhaps this snippet is of some help:

    !gnusocial !fnetworks #federation #fediverse https://gnusocial.net/attachment/cb9618538a9e5d8cfe3e78d2ca6b29734cefe631fa4e8b4bcc72ee7140b9e4a9/view
    In conversation about 5 months ago from gnusocial.net permalink
  7. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Nov-2022 15:32:12 UTC simsa04 simsa04
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    Worth your thought...
    https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109273455318668977
    https://gnusocial.net/conversation/7417481#notice-12895330

    #fediverse #federation !gnusocial !fnetworks
    In conversation about 5 months ago from gnusocial.net permalink

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    1. ar.al🌻 (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)
      from ar.al🌻
      We should not be optimising Mastodon so it can handle more people per server. We should be optimising Mastodon so it incentivises more serves with fewer people. (And if you take that line of thinking to its logical conclusion, you arrive at the idea behind the Small Web: https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/) #decentralisation #federation #fediverse #SmallWeb
    2. Invalid filename.
      Conversación - gnusocial.net
  8. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Oct-2022 01:04:42 UTC simsa04 simsa04
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    • gnusocial
    • admin de gnusocial.net
    • Lohan Gunaweera
    Thank you for clarifying that.

    cc @administrator !fnetworks !gnusocial #federation
    In conversation about 5 months ago from gnusocial.net permalink
  9. simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2022 00:45:43 UTC simsa04 simsa04
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    • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    • Federati Networks
    I find this thread pretty nonsensical.

    1) Why should people leave Twitter just because E.M. purchases it? What changes does he have in mind that people supposedly fear so much that they think about moving to the #Fediverse -- of all places!

    2) The author's categorisation of user groups (# 6):
    1. Programmers & tech enthusiasts
    2. LGBTQIA+
    3. Furries
    4. Neurodivergent
    may be true for some Mastodon and Pleroma instances, but to reduce the Fediverse inhabitants to these four groups, even call them core groups, is ridiculous.

    3) His advice to scale quickly, i.e., to build more instances, is misguided, as more instances still face the already endemic problem of mutual de-federating of instances (and the subsequent break-up of the Fediverse in various mutual excluding Sub-diverses). More machines will not alleviate the pressure of the expected wave of new people, as the machines won't interact. Instead, the result will rather be more silos, i.e., more Twitter imitations.

    4) Building the Fediverse (# 18) is "about building a ROBUST social media infrastructure that is protected from the whims of shareholders and governments". Nah, that is the usual understanding of instances as machines whereas instances are rather conversations. As shareholders and governments are not interested in conversations, they won't be interested in the Fediverse.

    After all those years, people still don't understand the Fediverse. And THAT is quite interesting.

    !FNetworks
    In conversation about 6 months ago from gnusocial.net permalink
  10. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Oct-2022 00:23:51 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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    I am not planning to launch the first open registration public instance until every !fnetworks #GNU_Social instance is running version 2.0+, so #Federati Networks may miss this next wave of #Twitter refugees.

    The chaotic situation at home has meant that I’ve delayed the planned upgrades again.
    In conversation about 6 months ago from Shoyu permalink
  11. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Jul-2022 21:59:42 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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    Domain name expired. Now renewed. The next !fnetworks related domain is up in December.
    In conversation about 8 months ago from web permalink
  12. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 25-Jul-2022 13:18:13 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    in reply to
    • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    • Federati Networks
    !fnetworks servers have new, up-to-date TLS certificates.

    Sorry, when they say "your certificates will expire in 5 days", you really only have that amount of time before they expire.
    In conversation about 8 months ago from web permalink
  13. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Apr-2022 22:02:12 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    in reply to
    • Douglas A. Whitfield
    • Federati Networks
    I don't know whether I responded. Yes, troubleshooting data would be useful. I'm still in #NYC, but I'm hoping to do some major updates to all !fnetworks sites when I return to #SoCal.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  14. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 18-Feb-2022 04:44:02 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    • Federati Networks
    I have some stuff planned for !fnetworks, but I think I'll wait until I am back in #SoCal to put them into effect. #Hotel_living really does make everything more difficult.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  15. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jan-2022 23:12:42 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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    • Open Source Playground
    Doing some maintenance on all !fnetworks and !osp servers. Expect downtime.
    In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
  16. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 11-Dec-2021 17:47:40 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    • Federati Networks
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    For the record, !fnetworks does not run any #Java software, nor is the JVM installed on any Federati server.

    The same applies for !OSP.

    I have not yet grepped logs for #log4j exploitation attempts, but other server admins report multiple log entries.
    In conversation about a year ago from mustard permalink
  17. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 31-Oct-2021 13:54:58 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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    I have been reducing family Web presence by abandoning domains and shuttering a #VPS here and there. Now I need to reduce my work hours, so I will have some time and energy to devote to both the family’s activities ( including reviving some #fambiz operations) and to building !fnetworks. I have some ideas in both areas, but have been stymied by the feast or famine nature of my employment.
    In conversation Sunday, 31-Oct-2021 13:54:58 UTC from Shoyu permalink
  18. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Sep-2021 02:10:09 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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    !fnetworks service announcement

    *** Friday, 2021-10-01 ***
    Intermittently throughout the day (New York time, EDT), there may be outages on various Federati Networks servers as I install updates and reboot.

    Same applies for !OSP's server.
    In conversation Tuesday, 28-Sep-2021 02:10:09 UTC from web permalink
  19. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jul-2021 19:33:28 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    • Federati Networks
    DNS still seems to be flapping on all servers. Up and down and up and down. It should stabilize soon.

    !fnetworks
    In conversation Thursday, 29-Jul-2021 19:33:28 UTC from web permalink
  20. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 29-Jul-2021 16:28:42 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    • Federati Networks
    And we're back! Transferred from one domain registrar to another and simultaneously had an Internet outage at home.

    This morning, I was notified that the transfer went through ... and that I needed to set up DNS again.

    (In previous domain transfers, I've found that DNS info sometimes gets transferred. Those are probably the ones where the DNS points to the hosting company, but I'll look to see whether there is an external DNS hosting service I can use.)

    !fnetworks
    In conversation Thursday, 29-Jul-2021 16:28:42 UTC from web permalink
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