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   dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 17:34:22 JST dansup

   2026: year of the #Forkiverse

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     dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 17:52:38 JST dansup

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     • M. Grégoire

     @mpjgregoire Yes, good catch, a scheduled task didn't run properly and the fix is now deployed, it's currently generating that data now and should be available within the hour!

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     M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 17:52:39 JST M. Grégoire

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     @dansup Speaking of Fediverse numbers, I see that #FediDB hasn't updated since December, e.g., https://fedidb.com/servers/mastodon.social . Didn't you say it should update automatically on the 2nd of each month?

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     dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 19:05:59 JST dansup

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     • M. Grégoire

     @mpjgregoire The updated historical stats are now live, you may need to clear your browser cache if you can't see them yet (or wait 15 minutes)

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 19:12:12 JST Aral Balkan

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     @dansup Be careful what you wish for.

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     dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 19:19:24 JST dansup

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral what do you mean?

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 19:26:50 JST Aral Balkan

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     @dansup https://mastodon.me.uk/@pikesley/115875757810619486

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     Bruce Heerssen (bruce@darkmoon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 19:46:06 JST Bruce Heerssen

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral @dansup
     Anyway, I listened to the podcast where they describe setting up the instance and I was appalled.

     Search Engine: The Fediverse Experiment
     https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CAD9930591890.mp3?updated=1767911887

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     Bruce Heerssen (bruce@darkmoon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 19:46:07 JST Bruce Heerssen

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral @dansup

     In collaboration with the NYT, or at least some of their podcasters. My hopes for the sporkiverse are abysmal. I will be happy to be wrong.

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     Bruce Heerssen (bruce@darkmoon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 19:46:07 JST Bruce Heerssen

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral @dansup

     I'm leaving the typo. :0_goose:

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 20:09:19 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Dennis Mansell

     @dennmans @bruce @dansup Did you hear the bit where they get some OpenAI agent to set up the instance? Something tells me we’re about a week away from this blowing up in their faces.

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     Dennis Mansell (dennmans@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 20:09:20 JST Dennis Mansell

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     • Bruce Heerssen

     @bruce @aral @dansup the podcast is fairly standard for the mainstream '[some decentralized solution] is too complicated for the people to understand'. I would be appalled if I weren't so used to this neo-liberal, consumerist viewpoint.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 20:21:40 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Bruce Heerssen
     • Dennis Mansell

     @bruce @dennmans @dansup Was it Claude? I admit I was skimming. They were talking about some new OpenAI agent with GUI integration just before. Anyway, that they used AI to set up the instance is the key thing.

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     Bruce Heerssen (bruce@darkmoon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 20:21:41 JST Bruce Heerssen

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     @dennmans @aral @dansup

     Yeah, that part is offensive, but expected. It was the glorification of AI that did it for me. They claim to have used Claude to set up the instance, including purchasing the domain name.

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     dansup (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 21:01:04 JST dansup

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     • M. Grégoire

     @mpjgregoire I forgot to add the scheduled task, but I just deployed it so it will run on the first at 18:00 UTC, every month. Please do lmk if it doesn't auto update next month, and I will take a closer look!

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     M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jan-2026 21:01:06 JST M. Grégoire

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     @dansup Works now.

     Do you think it will run automatically from now on, or shall I remind you again in February? 😉