Notices by gyptazy (gyptazy@mastodon.gyptazy.com)

Is the #Fediverse really open for #freedom?

In the last weeks, I noticed more & more messages from different instances/admins about moderation, banning and de-federations. Initially, people told the Fediverse is more open, not blocking and deleting content compared to other social medias. However, I think it shifted to the opposite where a single instance admin decides for the whole user base (which might not even be aware of it).

#community #activitypub #federation #opensource #socialmedia

My relay instance for the #Fediverse evolved in a great way - more than 120 instances are already connected to boost your posts across the Fediverse.

If you're running #snac / #snac2, #Mastodon, #Pleroma or any other software on the #ActivityPub protocol that supports relay instances - feel free to join the relay! Hopefully #GoToSocial also supports relay services soon! Of course #IPv6 is supported (for IPV6 only instances).

https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com

#opensource #relay #ipv6 #community #homelab

@nyanide @Dendrobatus_Azureus

You probably missed this one...

You asked for it - you get it! #FreeBSD 15 current will be available at #BoxyBSD starting this weekend!

@BoxyBSD #RUNBSD

Here we go... The first #FBSD 15 based boxes are coming :)

@BoxyBSD #FreeBSD #RUNBSD #BoxyBSD

5G must not be bad - I use it as a replacement for the landline. Even Fiber is available here, Unlimited 5G (1Gbps down, 100-150Mbit up) in Germany is cheaper for me. Even several servers are running here behind a WireGuard VPN. Latency is around 10ms (better than several FTC or (V)DSL connections).

@stefano

Perfekt, endlich mal einfaches C

@Toasterson

The #Fediverse is free, free of censorship, federated and full of great content!

Also the Fediverse - instance admins randomly blocking whole instances just because a single user feels offended of a post by a single instance user. Blocking whole instances is just a finger snip away, censoring unwanted content and parenting users of instances. Defederating just because of… ok no clue :) Using content warner for any possible content just to annoy or aeemmm make it more interesting to other users. Thanks, I’m old enough :) Seeing all the spam because it’s just a thing of 5 minutes automation to create randomly new instances on different domains (or subdomains from dynamic-ip hosters) and to fill the network with automated content.

Sometimes, pros can easily switch into cons… luckily more and more single user instances are raising up for exactly this reasons and can still easily federate by using relays…

#networking #activitypub #mastodon #fediverse #gotosocial #snac #snac2 #opensource #community #socialmedia #relay #abuse #moderation

Counting the minutes for #FOSDEM !
Guess you can easily spot me…

Oh, let's have a meet there! Maybe, if you're interested, we can also do gpg key signing...

@sergiodj @grunfink

Using a relay, your posts and reactions will be send to other instances, as well as from all other ones to you.

@ninkosan

I never understood people complaining about Twitter, X, Reddit etc using their data for training - but now spreading their public data to everyone who scrapes it - for even more users to train their AI and even easier. Simply follow profile for profile of a post, thankfully even easier for specific topics on hashtags and briefly described alt images

@BeAware

Awesome! Thanks for joining and welcome on board :)

@brian @grunfink

What do you mean in detail!? How the relay scales? That, luckily, doesn’t have any impacts for instances that use the relay :)

@EpicBear @grunfink

@menel @grunfink great, happy to hear! Snac is indeed awesome, enjoy :)

That might happen, when there were no new posts/updates from an instance for a specific time. Maybe I should increase that timeframe

@grunfink @chris

Let me DM you, I’m currently not at home and can’t watch the logs. Please already check if your timezone is correctly defined.

Regarding validation: If you can find your instance on the overview, then it works.

@chris @grunfink

I recently wrote a blog post about the benefits of using a relay instance. You can find it here: https://gyptazy.com/hosting-a-new-activitypub-relay-for-the-fediverse-including-mastodon-and-snac/ - hope it helps :)

@stringintinfinite @grunfink

Just a few days ago, I lunched my new relay service for the #Fediverse and I'm really happy to see that there're already many ones connected to - more than 50 instances in just a few days!

But what makes me even really happy is to see, that my service [2] also gets linked in the release notes of #snac [1] / #snac2 - and I can recommend the usage of relay services (it doesn't matter which one!) to everyone. It provides more content from connected instances to you, but also brings your posts - from your local instance - up to other ones within the federated network where it can get much easier distributed around other instances.

#snac is the perfect way to host an own fediverse instance. Using the #ActivityPub protocol allows you to connect to all other instances. With the integrated #Mastodon API, you can also use most of your usual clients or web clients. Snac is light, fast, does not require any database and follows the KISS way - which the most of us BSD people are living. With relay services, it's the perfect match for singe-user instances and @grunfink is always open for ideas and to help! It does not always need to be #Mastodon, #GoToSocial etc!

And if you're using any other software, you may still benefit by using relay services. And if you're still looking for a guide, howto setup snac2 on #FreeBSD, my howto [3] might help you out.

[1]: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
[2]: https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com
[3]: https://gyptazy.com/install-snac2-on-freebsd-an-activitypub-instance-for-the-fediverse/

#community #opensource #development #coding #c #clang #homelab #hosting #BSD #RUNBSD #Howto

You nailed it again, well done! Thanks for your continuous development on snac! The LitePub integration will make many lives of snac operators much easier and improve the overall fedi network where posts will be more visible to everyone!

@grunfink