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   Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 03:29:28 JST Marco Rogers

   Last week was my first time really looking into what settings are available to admins who run their own instance. I was a bit surprised to find there isn't much there. At least through masto.host. I don't think they hide settings though. Only some of the deeper technical stuff.

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     esmevane, sorry (ironchamber@mastodon.esmevane.com)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 03:29:20 JST esmevane, sorry

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     @polotek Do you know if that’s 1 job per post per follower inbox or 1 job per post per follower instance? Either way it’s a huge amount of jobs

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     Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 03:29:21 JST Marco Rogers

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     Here's the snapshot of my sidekiq status again. The take away here is that there was no huge spike this morning. This is normal usage. It still produced upwards of 15K jobs that need to be completed. That's just doesn't feel like a reasonable design for this kind of system.

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     Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 03:29:22 JST Marco Rogers

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     Well there you have it folks. If you actually use mastodon and people wanna talk to you, then the lowest tier plan is not gonna work for you.

     No offense to masto support, but I wish we could've gotten here sooner. Instead I had people swearing to me that it shouldn't be a problem.
     https://mastodon.social/@mastohost/111998917873143310

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     Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 03:29:23 JST Marco Rogers

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     FYI @mastohost

     I'm once again experiencing very slow read and write times since I dropped back to the lowest paid tier. Please let me know if there's something you can do.

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     Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 03:29:24 JST Marco Rogers

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     Feel free to tell me what I'm missing here. I'll follow up later this week and share what I'm learning. I want to understand this for two reasons.

     1. I want to learn more about the moderation tools and what controls mastodon gives to instance admins.

     2. I still want to understand more about how federation impacts the performance of the system.

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     Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 03:29:25 JST Marco Rogers

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     So here's my best theory. I know that another implicit way to enable federation is if a user on my instance follows a user on another instance. My instance will start pulling those posts in automatically and putting them into that user's feed. It looks like that kind of implicit federation is not shown in the tools? That's very surprising to me.

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     Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 03:29:26 JST Marco Rogers

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     Not weird at all. We have been trained out of wanting to understand and control our own experience. But it's actually very cool and empowering.
     https://mastodon.social/@Palleas/111998749838523835

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     Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 03:29:27 JST Marco Rogers

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     As I continue to educate myself about how mastodon and ActivityPub currently works, I found myself asking a basic question. How do I see the list of servers I'm currently federated with?

     I expected to see a list of servers that I federate with. There is a view that looks like it *should* show that list. Under the moderation tools. But it was empty.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 06:07:34 JST Aral Balkan

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     @mez @polotek @mastohost Yep, t’was I :) https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/

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     Philip (mez@mastodon.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 06:07:35 JST Philip

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     @polotek @mastohost A year ago or so I remember someone talking about how they basically DDOS’d themselves because they had a decent number of followers and posted a spicy take or a “it’s my birthday” message and got hammered with replies. Maybe @aral ?