I was trying to look into a minor issue with my mother's wifi router, but not remembering the password I attempted to log in a bit too much. When it stopped connecting to the internet at all I had apparently broken it completely and I tried to fix it for quite a while. Two resets and reconfiguring later we had finally internet back. Then we read on that internet that there had been a big outage with several service providers where their routes to Google had been broken, many people reporting problems.
So the conclusion is clear: Google's routes run through my mother's wifi router.
I did a thread asking about authorized fetch before switching it on, and no one seemed certain if there would be problems.
So, I did a trial period, and no one reported any problems reaching the accounts (I was asking via FediTips which wasn't on authorized fetch). And my hosting company said there weren't any problems at their end. So I just left it on.
As far as I can tell it does work now? Would like to hear if there are issues though.
I’m a firm believer that tech can’t singlehandedly solve social / cultural problems.
I’m also a firm believer that tech is an important part of systemic feedback loops, that UX shapes behavior and culture in surprising ways, and that sometimes small tech changes can help •mitigate• social problems.
So…maybe keep new users off the instance’s local timeline until they have >N followers…?
GNU social JP is a social network, courtesy of GNU social JP管理人. It runs on GNU social, version 2.0.2-dev, available under the GNU Affero General Public License.
All GNU social JP content and data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.