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   Lohan Gunaweera (lohang@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2022 09:47:50 JST Lohan Gunaweera

   Went server-shopping for the Mastodon instance and ended up shocked. This doesn't look sustainable. The economic crisis has made my money worthless.

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     simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2022 09:47:46 JST simsa04

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     As gs.net does have OStatus and ActivityPub, I don't understand why mutual subscriptions aren't possible. Esp. as there is no problem for our mutual subscribings with your old account on mastodon.social (excepts for Repeats and Boosts) which dropped OStatus-support altogether. Perhaps the maintainer of your instance's softare can figure things out. Hope you keep posting another while form your old m.s.-account.
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     Lohan Gunaweera (lohang@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2022 09:47:47 JST Lohan Gunaweera

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     • simsa04

     @simsa04 Thank you! Yes, I noticed I could not follow you either. Yours was one of the first accounts I tried to follow. I hope this gets resolved soon. Sad to see GNUSocial getting left behind in the fediverse.

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     simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2022 09:47:48 JST simsa04

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     Congratulations to your own instance, it was a long time in the making. Sadly I need to tell you that I cannot subscribe to you from gnusocial.net.
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     Lohan Gunaweera (lohang@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2022 09:47:49 JST Lohan Gunaweera

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     I am happy to report that I found an affordable, small server and the software that fits it better. I now have my own self-hosted fedi instance at @lohang@social.alochana.net , powered by #epicyon . Please feel free to follow me there as well. I don't intend to bulk migrate my follows. I will instead continue to use this account as well, while making a soft transition by subscribing to people that I actively engage with. I am concerned about not being able to follow GNUSocial users. Let us see how this evolves :)

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     Lohan Gunaweera (lohang@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2022 21:11:14 JST Lohan Gunaweera

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     • simsa04

     @simsa04 Yes, I will continue to use this account for a while. What I share on the self-hosted instance will be slightly different from what I post here.

     Good idea, I will file an issue about the federation problem with GS.

     admin de gnusocial.net likes this.
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     Lohan Gunaweera (lohang@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 21:13:39 JST Lohan Gunaweera

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     • Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:

     @tk Netcup is the most affordable and stable provider I found, but they ask for something weird : a selfie with my ID card with English or German translation, and a piece of paper with your order. The thing about running a fediverse software is that it is resource hungry by design. It will pull in remote content. That demands loads of storage than a regular VPS.

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     Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: (tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 21:13:40 JST Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:

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     @lohang Which providers did you look at?
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     Lohan Gunaweera (lohang@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 21:13:40 JST Lohan Gunaweera

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     • Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:

     @tk Linode, Digital Ocean, gandi, 1984 and several others that offer "cheaper" prices but do not accept credit card payments. The issue is with my currency which completely collapsed over the past year.

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     Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem: (tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 21:13:41 JST Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:

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     @lohang VPS or hardware?
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     Lohan Gunaweera (lohang@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 21:13:41 JST Lohan Gunaweera

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     • Doughnut Lollipop 【記録係】:blobfoxgooglymlem:

     @tk VPS