Jeez I manually deleted my instance’s cache folder and now every image is broken, even for new posts. I ran a ‘tootctl cache clear’ but it hasn’t fixed the issue. Any suggestions?
Hmm I probably have the most ridiculous #robotstxt for a #Misskey instance right now lol. I just want to let #Mojeek and #Marginalia crawl #Makai and make sure to keep out #Google and the AI scrapers... :satrithink:
I have rclone trauma.😂 A decade ago, I misconfigured rclone doing a backup of my personal computer and lost everything in both directions. Luckily, I caught it early.
For my personal files, I have backups of my backups, so it was an easy fix. I've been afraid of rclone since.🤭
I've been reading the rclone guides over the past week but decided, $5.00 to transfer my instance with Flexify was worth it. I still have a credit from the first transfer.
A thread on the lack of courage of some #fediadmin that I will name because they have step over one of my limits. @thurisaz has enacted a ban of the instance (mastodon.projetretro.io) with the following messages : "Admin is nazi apologist" (see https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=projetretro.io)
To say that I'm shocked to be so carelessly called a nazi will be an understatement. I tried to reach over to polyglot by mail to understand the reason of the the ban to no answer so far .
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While my original proposal to hide images in order to highlight the importance of well-written alt text did not gain a whole lot of traction, I'm still glad there was some conversation, and grateful to everyone who is still interested in joining in.
If you do participate, I would love to hear from you!
@Stefan Bohacek My contribution is my first image post in three months. As usual, I've described the image appropriately. This, however, led to me outdoing myself again.
The alt-text with the "short" description is precisely 1,500 characters long. The actual image description in the post is over 60,000 characters long. And I've had to limit myself in both cases.
Here's the post. Or try to find it under the hashtag #UniversalCampus if it has found its way to your instance.
I've received my first "report" on hugs.lgbt and I'm very confused ....
Two posts were reported ... neither were from hugs.lgbt posts ... one was a reply to one of my posts by a mutual, the other was a post by that mutual without any hugs.lgbt involvement ...
Did I receive the report because one of those was a reply to a post of mine?
But why the other one?
Also very confused as to why ... the first was a thank you reply to a post from me.
The other was a meme.
The category was "other" but no notes or any other information that I could discern 🤔 🤷♂️
for a year and a half, images from mstdn.social have been unloadable on my instance
pings and traceroutes to mstdn.social from inside of my network die right at the router:
Request timeout for icmp_seq 4
92 bytes from 192.168.0.1: Destination Port Unreachable
Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst
4 5 00 5400 178b 0 0000 3f 01 1e6d 192.168.0.200 116.202.14.219
no changes i made on my network fixed it, and i began to suspect my isp had blocked the ip
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............ it turns out, my ipv6 was disabled and mstdn.social needs it for its cdn 😭
as I alluded to yesterday, I actually wrote something about the problem with #fediverse link embeds, how they potentially DDoS servers, and how we can (kinda) fix it.
#fediadmin friends: are there any downsides to turning on the "Content cache retention period"? I've noticed that my database's content cache table is very large, and I realized I hadn't set a retention time for it.
@misty For me it's an absolute requirement on account of "I do not have infinite money for object storage". The only downside is that sometimes, the upstream content is deleted and I haven't gotten a copy in cache beyond the retention period.
@misty i've experimented with this, and came to regret losing old thread data from other servers. the only setting worth messing with is the media cache setting
Is there an all in one "So you want to run a fediverse instance" type guidebook in relation to legal, moderation and long term sustainability tasks?
Things like templates for Privacy Policies, Server Rules and About sections, understanding moderation tasks and the importance of having multiple administrators, funding plans.