Notices by Mike Johnston (thamunsta@mastodon.nervesocket.com), page 2

@BeAware agreed. The vanilla ice cream of fedi? 😂 We could probably come up with a bunch of these

@BeAware given it was made by a user on mastodon.social (the McDonald's of fedi as I like to say 😏) I'm not at all surprised their post seems to read like they only thought Mastodon users would be donating though. It was "for Mastodon" and I'm sure they don't understand any of it 😂

@BeAware I don't disagree at all but I wouldn't call it a sensationalist headline if the campaign people chose to donate to was called Mastodon for Harris 😂

@BeAware I made a filter for any posts that have either of the two domain names. Works pretty good but ya it always confused me why anyone would bring that crap here. I understand that some posts only exist there and I'm fine not seeing those lol I have zero fomo

@BeAware ya that's all posts which is what I mean that it's too bad we don't have more "surgical" means of deleting. I'd probably prefer if I didn't delete posts I favorite for example. At any rate yeah in the next few days you should see tons of space restored 💪

@BeAware yeah I only keep 30 days media retention. If I want to see an image or video beyond that I'll just go to the remote instance 😂 it's so much data
Today I cleared out about 200k posts though. Freed up ~5gb of database after doing a VACUUM. Probably not worth the effort but it was a fun experiment

@BeAware I wish there were better tools for cleaning remote data. Inactive remote accounts. Instances where there are no follow[s|ers]. Instances with dead DNS entries, expired SSL certs, 5xx errors... I did a HUGE purge today and it was hard to know what I should delete without accidentally nuking the needles amongst the haystacks - so to speak...

@BeAware I've been guilty of the same thing. MySQL error? Fuck it add zeros to every limit I see in the config.... As a random recent example 😂 it's somewhat part of my "destructive debugging" process. The next step involves deleting large portions of code or files to see if I get a new error. Same error means I'm looking in the wrong place. New error means I'm getting closer 💪 hahaha

@BeAware a quick google tells me: it's not easy! 🎉 Lmao but apparently the media_attachment.rb has what you are looking for 🤔 then service restarts. Good luck! Very annoying issue to have for sure

@BeAware the worst part is if I'm counting right I think it's only 1 digit too high. Max int size in js is 9007199254740991 😂

Yes, hello. I would like to formally coin the phrase: "Getting FediDoSed." and subsequently "FediDoSing that instance." Thanks.

LOL when a user with thousands of followers boosts a toot from a small instance and you can just see it crawl to a halt 😬 oops!

@BeAware oh no... At very least this is going to "Streisand Effect" the show. What a idiot 😂

@thomasfuchs
No. I n a t a n t l y lol it is a solid tip though. Today I used a frying pan to smash several at once and that felt pretty efficient

@thomasfuchs being able to peel garlic instantly