This is Joseph. I finally got my new friendica node up and running. Not for the faint of hear
It is running, as you can see my message.
While I know that I have a few things to set up, I was reading over the doc's and it talked about adding a relay. This way, get more traffic and will see posts outside of my ultra tiny circle of contacts(myself at the moment, and friendica admin and support forums!)
They say go to the command line and enter the add relay command with the relay domain question:
bin/console relay add relay.example.com/actor
But, the command line spits out the error:
-bash: bin/console: No such file or directory
What might I have missed during my install so that the bin/conssole command is not availabe?
@staringatclouds@thejessiekirk Its reasonably straight forward to run your own personal instance from a #RaspberryPi I’ve had this instance running now for ~8 months
Federation can initially be a bit of a battle, you can move over all your followers, using some #Relays will also help. I also have a second account on the server that follows more accounts to help pull in content. Also look at something like #Fedifetcher
I would definitely recommend running your own instance, it gives you the independence to run it how you want. Once setup its not much ongoing effort and the hardware can handle it. Also you don’t need a particularly high speed internet connection. If are still thinking of going ahead , I’m happy to answer questions or point you at the guides I used. #SelfHosted#MastoAdmin
Got a replacement blower #ECM#motor from northamericahvac.com - had to order from the States. Installed it, and ... furnace was still throwing an #error code meaning "incorrect #signal from ECM motor" once, then "no signal from ECM motor" forever after.
After double-checking, I saw the part number on the box didn't match what I'd ordered - but that turned out to be a red herring. The box number was for the unprogrammed motor.
Did some digging and discovered the #coil in one of the #relays mounted on the furnace control board had apparently melted. I haven't mapped out the board to confirm this, but I suspect it was the relay that powers the draft #inducer motor. Without that spinning up, the furnace doesn't get the #exhaust draft [1], and so the pressure switch doesn't trigger.
The furnace refuses to light, rather than #kill you with exhaust gas leakage.
Now with more and more #instances upgraded to version 4.2.0 of #Mastodon, you can compare full text #search on different ones: Having multiple accounts, I did – and yes, the differences are rather big.
Once again it seems clear, the bigger your instance the better for finding content in the #fediverse. Especially for journalists, this also implies, that an instance by your organization might not be the best idea. Something like journa.host could make more sense.
@feditips
Yes, #relays could be a solution. Didn't really work out when my private instance discussed it with me. But "topics you're interested in", might be a harder to define for journalists. You want stuff to reach you that's newsworthy, sometimes that happens in #Ukraine, then in #Armenia, then on #Hawaii.
That my visibility is no problem, is good. I know that.
This is VERY bad news for users of small instances like myself.
I do understand the reasoning behind it, and I'm not sure there is a good alternative. But it sure feels a bit like a deja vu from the self hosted email days ...
J’en avais mis un sur mon instance quand ça venait de sortir, ça avait spammé ma TL global de message de pleins de langues que je ne sais pas lire, rendant cette TL inutilisable.
Du coup je l’ai désactivé et ne me suis pas plus renseigné depuis.
Est-ce qu’il y a des relais uniquement francophones ?
#Relays have been powering telecom for decades. Messaging is a foundational topic for Sovereign networks. We have many transport protocols like a #didcomm#iden3comm, but we still need an end-to-end solution with permission and persistence in place. Decentralized Web Nodes #DWN offers a relay-based network topology with persistence. The same topology was proposed by #noster. So why #relays are so important?
Have the need to be federated but the relays fill your server with a bunch of crap that's irrelevant to your interests? Fine tune your own #relays with https://relay.fedi.buzz
I just set up a #mastodon instance that I intend to use alone.
How can I fill the federated timeline, hashtags, and trends? I wan't to be able to discover stuff from servers that I don't already follow (especially from hashtags).
I will be shutting down relay.gruenehoelle.nl in a couple of weeks.
Its unfortunately too much work for me to manage alone and its not something that can run unattended unfortunately (high volume, spam, ..). I would rather spend that energy on #convocasa
I highly recommend relaylist.com - and there are some really good relays out there that do it much better :)
When I first created Toot Works :toot_works_girl:, I tried adding a bunch of relays and the storage needs very quickly hocky-sticked. After that, I gave up on the concept of relays. Two days ago, I added "The BigRelay" and so far it's only taking up ~6gb. Since Toot Works is only caching content for three days, I think that this should work in the longterm.
My current job is about fixing and automating global supply chains, one line of code at the time, but I have worked in a wide range of industries over the past (nearly) two decades.
My hobbies often involve automating everything around me.
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Admin of https://social.platypush.tech, a Mastodon instance where I may talk a lot about Platypush, automation, programming, electronics and maths. I tend to write a lot, so if you're looking for an instance with a 10,000 characters per toot limit...
Looking for relays with instances dedicated to similar topics. My dream would be to build an experience, when it comes to #Fediverse#relays, that is akin to curated #OPML lists, where admins can create curated federated experiences for the users on their platforms, rather than the open-to-everything overwhelming stream of toots on the federated timeline that most of the relays provide nowadays.
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