Under-the-radar late night launch: RSS Parrot is live! It talks like Mastodon, but it doesn't walk like Mastodon. BUT! It will relay any RSS feed straight into your timeline.
Turn Mastodon into your very own feed reader. Follow anything that has an RSS feed and get a toot about new posts.
How? Mention @birb with the address you want to follow.
@kellogh I just rediscovered RSS & apart from feeds which are by design or for me read-only, I'm finding it invaluable to (a) keep track of my must-read people (& click through if I wish to read or join a Fediverse conversation), (b) to index my own posts on Mastodon so that I can relocate them without endless scrolling! (My instance does not yet have search options - & the RSS reader is fast.) @twilliability #RSS#Elasticsearch#OpenWeb
@xeraa@moira I don't care about the data, I can reindex any time. This is, and always has been, a single-node installation.
Here's the funny part, even after deleting both /var/lib/elasticsearch and /etc/elasticsearch the problem persists. I'm starting to believe the package has a bug. Is it easy to build #ElasticSearch from source?
Looking to build a simple #python#app on top of my search project for a nicer #UI and eventually doing some #monitoring & #logging of user activity. Haven’t worked on this since uni when we used #flask and sometimes a bit of #django. Anyone have any good insights / best practices / favorite reference for something like this?
I added Elasticsearch to my tiny Mastodon instance hosted on Fly.io and you can too! Was hoping to give it a small VM to keep the cost down, but ES won't even deign to respond to an HTTP request without at least 2GB of RAM at its disposal, so I guess we'll see how this goes.
"Big wiki projects have text in a lot of different languages—which use several dozen writing systems—as well as technical symbols, uncommon character variants, and all kinds of “interesting” formatting and typography. As much as possible, we want that kind of thing to be transparent to searchers."
I took some time to work out the exact #formatting that #Elasticsearch demands. If you think this might be useful, go ahead and boost. If you find any errors or would like to suggest additions, please also post a reply!
Hopefully this can help prevent a lot of frustration and trouble people might encounter and give them a better Mastodon experience!
@enusbaum I went to check if I needed to update #Elasticsearch on my #Mastodon server and then realized that I don't have Elasticsearch on my server because I have 4GB of RAM on my server and Elasticsearch would die on my server.
So, apparently I have ElasticSearch now? I had to hard reset my server in the middle of indexing because it ran out of memory and came to a complete halt. (See https://ma.fellr.net/@fell/111375959444602138)
It seems to be working though? I don't care if it hasn't indexed everything as long as it indexes new posts.
Well, I finally got myself up to #Mastodon v4.1.9, and now to begin the v4.2.0 upgrade. Not going to bother with #Elasticsearch setup for now, though would probably go for #OpenSearch probably anyways.
ES|QL is a great new query language for #Elasticsearch, and my team is building integrations into the client libraries. Here's an overview of our #PHP integration that lets you turn your results into PHP objects.
Behind search for masto is a resource-hungry #java application called #elasticSearch. Sure you might be able to get Masto to run on a #raspberrypi4, but you won't be running elastic search with it.
Having recently moved my instance to a much more powerful system, I now run ES, and WOW what a difference being able to search post makes! Soooo many times I wanted to reference a toot that had scrolled by but had no way of finding it. Now I do!
Even though I've put some serious resource limits on ES, it's bar none the most resource intensive service running (out of around 25).
Please consider sending a few bucks to the #MastodonAdmin of your instance. Better yet, if you can afford it, sign up for a monthly donation. They need it.
Schade - der Arbeitstag endet etwas unbefriedigend da das HowTo für den ELK Stack kaputt ist. Heute fehlt mir die Motivation da was selbst aufzubauen. Es ging aber eh erstmal um einen lokalen Test und nicht um ein Deployment.
Delighted to let everyone know that https://fediverse.au has been successfully upgraded to 4.2.5 of #Mastodon software (thank you, Claire!).
Additionally, #ElasticSearch has been installed for a better user experience.
Fediverse AU is exclusively for #research organisations and #university schools, centres and #faculties in the Australasian region - as most Mastodon instances don't allow these sorts of corporate accounts.
Please let me know if you experience any issues or glitches.