Notices by C.W. Smith (cwsmith@social.mechanizedarmadillo.com), page 3

@BeAware

@LavenderPawprints

It's like how my Dad is RL... He's always been an absolutist. You either side with him, or your inferior in someway intellectually, morally, or ethically. He's always been that way. Of course it's less a real moral stance and more a blame anyone but himself for how the last 20 years went for him

@LavenderPawprints

@BeAware

You aren't wrong. The extreme political stance left ward was something I was warned about when I discovered the Fediverse. I was hoping I could keep that sort of stuff out of my feed or at least minimize it. Besides, the idea of sharing to many communities appealed. I didn't want the closed walled garden setup.

I turn a lot of blind eyes towards the politics. I have to.

@BeAware

Working on it. It takes a bit.

@ProfessorCode

@killyourfm

Ain't that the truth.

I will probably be doing that more as I work on one of my blog urls instead of deal with whatever else I'd need to for that.

Even if I am not an expert, having stuff written from the POV of an enthusiastic but not professional voice could be of actual benifit.

@killyourfm

It always feels like an uphill battle, even with my Dad who hates Microsoft and has been in tech related jobs for most of his life.

He gets pissed at how Linux works because it's not how he thinks everything should work.

@mte90

@BeAware

r/Mastodon might not have an answer. As far as I am aware, all the automated crossposting utils stopped functioning when X took its API private so there might not be an easy solution.

I honestly just copy and paste depending on what I am sharing and if I feel it's worth putting on both platforms.

@BeAware

Since the addresses for media aren't ip addresses it should be OK.

@BeAware

Not sure about backblaze, but Cloudflare works at the DNS level so it shouldn't need any editing to .env.production at all.

@hyakinthos

@BeAware @madeindex

I am on #Cloudflare at the moment.

What I need is a good alternative to it's services or a good reason why I don't need them at all. I use Linode/Akamai for my VPS service.

I do agree about the issue with the big boys, but that's gonna be an issue with users understanding of what everything is. It's still difficult to get people to understand that it's not a difference like it is between Meta or X.

@BeAware

No problem, I honestly think it's Redis at the point now anyway.

@BeAware

Anti-anything folks usually suck hard.

@BeAware

Well I checked that error and it is a redis error. So see if this command runs properly.

redis-server --daemonize yes

As it relates to the postgres status, the entire service is postgresql so that's probably where you hit the snag.

@BeAware

Maybe, but it's worth checking. They may have been started on setup, but it's worth running a status on to see what's going on.

@BeAware

No problem, these can be trying pains in the ass.

@BeAware

Yeah, I think it's in that error. Some issue in the backend.

@BeAware

All daemon-reload does is reset systemd and reload the I it scripts so when you do start on anything it uses the new file.

Unless you changed something I wouldn't run it.

What is sudo systemctl status sharkey saying?

@BeAware

Never know. And yeah, it looks like a default nginx error screen.

Without some time and access to the logs I don't know how helpful I will be. All I can recommend is going through Sharkey's start up instructions for a setup server at the point it goes up.

@BeAware

Cloudflare can be a bitch and has caused me issues before. Set the domain for developer mode so it bypasses CDN and see what happens.

@BeAware

Yeah, these are always fun to run down and I have had more than a few times where I get the same issue with Mastodon.

So the sharekey services themselves are running.

It's definitely a pain in the ass, and I assume you don't have the ass pain of a CDN like cloudflare on top of it to deal with as well.

@BeAware

Hmmm.

I don't know about how sharekey works, and I am assuming you have at least restarted the specific services.