Notices by Michael Stanclift (vmstan@vmst.io)

@tx_tartan @clacke yes, but also, no. If you’ve not seen the third episode of the second season, I won’t spoil anything.

Not a fan of the default Mastodon UI? Did you know #vmstio has multiple client options available?

We offer Elephant (aka Bird UI) as a theme directly at https://vmst.io. You can find instructions on how to enable Elephant at https://docs.vmst.io/flings/elephant

We offer Elk at https://elk.vmst.io, with a similar look and feel but additional features and functionality.

Finally we have Semaphore at https://semaphore.vmst.io as a dedicated client focused on accessibility.

#UserChoice

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@pixelfed is lockdown mode the equivalent of authorized fetch?

Every article I read talking up Bluesky as an alternative to Twitter, when it mentions Mastodon: “Bluesky is federated like Mastodon except it's easy to use because it's not actually federated.”

@phoccer I wish but no. There’s something wrong in that math. I purged about 1400 accounts that signed up but were never utilized last month.

@phoccer hey @dansup might want to look at your growth metrics as it seems to look at any change as positive

@thomasfuchs my Steam ID is an email address I no longer have but it won’t let me change it.

Docker is turning off the Mastodon foundation’s Docker Hub account unless they start paying, which they’re not willing to do.

If you’re running an instance with containers, they’re now available from `ghcr.io/mastodon/mastodon` instead.

#mastoadmin

@caseynewton and here I am running an instance with 3500 people, afraid that I’ll run people away if I toot too much on the local timeline ?

From @doctroid on recent drama in the Fedi https://doctroid.wordpress.com/2023/02/17/checking-instances/

Boy, do I have you all fooled ?

I’m not in the business of rationing toots like someone over at the other reverse chronological micro-blog site, but maybe 1000 requests per second is a bit too much.

(This has been going on since yesterday, if you were having intermittent performance issues this is why. It’s been blocked since last night but won’t stop.)

Currently rebuilding the full text search index for vmst.io. Got Open Search clustering up and going this afternoon.

High availability FTW ?
#mastoadmin

@david @mongoose @Dora @mastohost Full disclosure, I have found the translation thing hit or miss overall. DeepL works great, when it's able to be triggered. The post you read has to be tagged with the language posted and be different from your UI.

The ability is there, just takes some moon/star alignment for it to prompt, and even then it's only for the default Web UI.

@david @mongoose @Dora @mastohost there are two ways to do translation, one is through the DeepL API (which we use) and the other is running your own libtranslate instance.

In either case you have to be able to connect your instance to it in the .env.production file, which you’d have to ask Masto Host if that’s something they support.

@anildash @evan it’s just another option, but yeah it’s already a little concerning how much runs behind Cloudflare already. Ultimately it needs to be easy to have Mastodon (or compatible platforms) anywhere and everywhere.

@User47 I just freed up some space on Masto.host this morning :drevil:

:veri_trek3: Sulu is on the fedi. :sparkle_gay:

@oblomov @rysiek @tek @stux @thatonecalculator @kev fedidb.org

@rysiek @stux @thatonecalculator @kev @tek get people here, then figure out how to redistribute after they land.