From the article's conclusion: "I still have a few questions about how peers actually work. For example, it looks like peers don’t have to be mutual. I’ve seen instances that list me as a peer, but my server does not. Also, going back to the chart I shared earlier, do peers matter? It seems more important to have followers on these instances."
Trying to run a little experiment and want to make sure my understanding is correct.
If I post something on my fediverse server, assuming it takes some time to reach all of my followers' servers, does that post get inserted into their feeds as if posted at the original time, or rather on top of their feed, but with the original timestamp?
Hm. I wonder if I can get any fediverse admins onboard to disable all images on their instance on the World Sight Day in October, so that only alt text shows up.
What's the best way to tidy up the public/system/cache folder in a #Mastodon instance?
My public/system/media_attachments is on 3.3GB.
However, public/system/cache/media_attachments is 22GB!
Similarly, public/system/accounts is 97MB, whereas cache/accounts is 22GB
How should I clear down this massive cache?
I've tried tootctl cache clear but nothing seems to change in the cache folder.
In total the cache folder is 55GB, everything outwith cache consumes only 6GB. It's making my backups massive and long to run.
"If you help run a public-spirited Facebook group, forum, listserv, or other kind of digital space that aims to strengthen connections between people in your local neighborhood, town, or city, @wearenew_public]'d love to speak with you."
About 1.5 years of running a small mastodon server.
Running costs currently are about 1€ per active user a month.
Would probably scale to a lot more users with not much cost increase. CPU-wise the server barely has any load.
A very big chunk of the cost is just the caching of media files. about 120GB for 3 days worth of caching
Alright, this will probably be the last update for anyone following along, but I decided to just delete the "accounts" folder inside /home/mastodon/live/public/system/cache, get a list of accounts I follow via Mastodon's API, and then run "tootctl accounts refresh" on all of them.
To celebrate a one year anniversary of my blog post "A netizen’s guide to Mastodon and the fediverse" [1], I'd like to rerun one of the polls [2] from the article:
Have you ever made a donation to a fediverse server admin?
Where are fellow #Mastoadmins planning what tools we need to combat the spam wave? Where are we planning features improvement to Mastodon (the software) or 3rd party tools to counteract this spam wave?
The Feb 2024 mastodon spam attack should be a learning lesson, and we should make our tools robust so this doesn't/cannot happen again.
Yesterday, there was news that the kid that was responsible for this huge wave of spam had been arrested and that the spam should stop because of that.
Not sure if that's the case or not, or if this is some other wave of spam that's happening. I've already reported and/or blocked 100+ accounts as of a few minutes ago and I've only been awake since 5am EST.
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?