@dheadshot@RL_Dane I don’t quite understand arguments for mastodon vs other sites that involve data privacy or AI training on your info. The way mastodon is designed is to be open. You can unlist your posts or set your account to manually approve followers and make it followers only but this is barely going to do much. Also server admins can see everything and there is no end to end encryption. Sending a postcard through the mail is probably more private TBH.
Still, it's good to be able to opt out, even for public toots, because there's going to be some times I want the "public" to see something, but not necessarily those searching for a particular keyword.
Guys, Threads has taken the limelight, and let them frakking have it.
Please stop pandering to people who care nothing about what makes #Fedi special. 😭
@RL_Dane What’s the controversy here? Why wouldn’t you want searchability? On the other hand it was awful on Twitter too. “Oh there was that neat link to a blog post” meant searching my browser history, not Twitter… lol
@RL_Dane Hrm. Ok, I could see that. I mostly use Mastodon (and Twitter in the past) as a forum to talk to other game devs. Though obviously I interact with FOSS-tootin' Texans too. ;)
(Imagine someone saying that with a Minnesotan accent. You're welcome.)
Slightly broke my brain, lol. Imagining a guy with a cowboy hat and wearing flannel suddenly open his mouth and with a nasally voice, say, "Well, ya know, we like FOSS down here in Texas too, ya know, gosh darn it! Want some lutefisk?"
@RL_Dane Woah woah woah! You don't just casually offer someone lutefisk in these parts. It's gotta be for a holiday or a church dinner. Though all the church dinners have failed to come back since covid... :(
@sirber@RL_Dane it is ;) if I move to self host later, I will almsot definitely go for Pleroma. Mastodon (the server software suite) is not exactly designed to be light or even super efficient.
As to the ES dependency question, it’s because ES is much better suited to this sort of thing. It’s designed to do efficient full text searching at scale. Postgres optimizes for other things. It does technically have the ability to do FTS but it’s not nearly as good at scale.
From the anecdotes of people who have set it up, it's dead simple to get running. Just a handful of commands to set up, no external web server or DB required.
By default, yes. I believe it can use an external database if you need to scale it up. @benjaminhollon has implemented a server recently, so you can ask him for more details.
Benjamin: Man, bud, I hate having to remember your instance name now, lol. Just a silly complaint, don't take it seriously.
It supports either SQLite or PostgreSQL. They recommend PostgreSQL for multi-user instances, but I’ve been fine with SQLite on my test instance.
One thing to note is it’s not really possible to switch once you set it up, so if you anticipate needing PostgreSQL, go ahead and use it from the beginning.
@sirber@RL_Dane@ianthetechie
Not possible, I only have two active accounts. When followers were migrated to this one they were removed from my old one. ;)
@sirber@RL_Dane@ianthetechie
Well you're not doing it well, given that my statement stands: I only have two active accounts. That Bookwyrm account sure isn't very active. ;)
True, but not everyone is up to that task. Like myself.
I've got lots of unix experience, but coming from a deeply siloed work environment, I wouldn't ever want my life to depend on knowing how to set up a web server, lol
@RL_Dane@dheadshot This wasn't actually Eugen's design. Iirc, it was another "I rewrote somebody else's patch and committed it under my name" situation, though perhaps he's given credit for this one.
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Yeah, moving to smaller instances I've realized that I was being spoiled by ElasticSearch. I'm probably gonna start using more tags too.
I use hashtags when I want random people to find my toot.
I don't when I only want people who are following me or reading the local timeline (or reading the federated timeline and are very lucky) to find my toot.
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