Notices by Michael (michael@mstdn.thms.uk)

@jimcarroll gotta be careful with this: if you don’t have enough free disk space it’ll go kaboom 💥

@BeAware @paul

Can you re-run pip install -r requirements.txt to see if that fixes it?

Mastodon now recommends switching to libvips from ImageMagick.

Is this as simple as apt install libvips or is something else needed?

Bonus question: is there any way of confirming it’s set up correctly to use libvips?

#mastoadmin

@BeAware @paul @zvavybir

Actually, I completely forgot the arguably easiest and lowest tech way of running FediFetcher:

GitHub Actions. These require no hardware, no installation, and no CLI at all: it’s all point and click at GitHub. Full instructions can be found in the readme:

https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher?tab=readme-ov-file#to-run-fedifetcher-as-a-github-action

The main disadvantage is that this way you can only schedule it every 15 min - GitHub doesn’t allow more frequent schedules.

@BeAware @paul @zvavybir yes you can. I’m sure Paul has more details - it’s been years since I last touched Windows in a meaningful way …

@BeAware

Actually just to clarify: you don’t need access to your instance’s CLI. Any machine that can run python will do. I know @paul runs it on his standard windows machine using Task scheduler. Even an Android device would do (though it’s complex to set up)

As such FediFetcher is completely compatible with hosted services like masto.host, and can even be used if you are just a plain old regular user, rather than the admin of your instance

@zvavybir

@BeAware @zvavybir

Nah, it’s fine. It makes me feel important and I like feeling important 🙈😂

I've just released FediFetcher 7.1.7.

This version adds an instance-blocklist option, so you can completely block FediFetcher from even attempting to connect to bad instance.

It also contains some performance improvements, so definitely worth getting this one.

Full changelog and update instructions are on the release page:

https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher/releases/tag/v7.1.7

#FediFetcher #MastoAdmin #SingleUserInstance

@BeAware @jessi

Yeah, FediFetcher uses the Missley API when fetching from Sharkey, because it’s mastodon api was/is too unreliable.

So, I got to admit that I doubt you’ll get it to work backfilling into Sharkey without modification.

But I think someone made a fork actually. Let me do some digging.

@jessi @BeAware

I’m really not sure whether it’ll work with Sharkey. Does sharkey have a mastodon compatible api?

@BeAware @leberschnitzel yep. This problem is exactly why FediFetcher was invented, and it works amazingly well to address it. But I might be a little biased 😉

Have a look at the readme, and let me know if you have questions.

@jwildeboer sadly at least mastodon doesn’t work like this at all.

In mastodon only self-replies by the OP are part of the activity pub replies collection, which is the reason that replies don’t federate well, and why we need FediFetcher.

@jerry I actually did push to production 3 times today - and it’s only lunch time 🤷♂️

Anyone here familiar with the #Peertube API?

According to the docs there should be an endpoint that gets the ‘comments threads' of a video, but that API only appears to get top-level comments. Is there no way to get replies to comments on Peertube, without requesting them one-by-one?

https://docs.joinpeertube.org/api-rest-reference.html#tag/Video-Comments/paths/~1api~1v1~1videos~1%7Bid%7D~1comment-threads/get

(This is for #FediFetcher - trying to fetch Peertube comments)

Related to the above: Does anyone have a list of the most common Fediverse services, ideally with 'marketshare’ (of active users, or something like that)?

Context being that FediFetcher now supports a dozen services (any that implement the Mastodon, Misskey, Lemmy, or Peertube APIs), and I'm wondering what other services would be valuable to implement.

#FediFetcher #Fediverse #fediadmin #mastoadmin

I've just released #FediFetcher 7.1.4.

This adds a small number of minor improvements, so definitely worth upgrading to. Visit the release page for full details:

https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher/releases/tag/v7.1.4

Working on FediFetcher might be somewhat addictive 🙈

Today I present v7.1.3 with a new feature that was requested almost exactly a year ago: FediFetcher can now fetch data from your lists 🎉

It also fixes a bug introduced in 7.1.0.

For all details including update instructions view the release page:

https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher/releases/tag/v7.1.3

#FediFetcher #MastoAdmin #SingleUserInstance

@rapha3l I'm not really sure, to be honest, but I got a feeling that it's sort of both.

What I know for a fact, is that it's the same as if you entered the remote post's URL into your Mastodon instance's search bar. But I'm not 100% sure what doing this does to federation.

AFAIK, 'federation' isn't a binary matter. I.e. it doesn't appear to be a question of two instances exchanging everything or nothing.

As far as I can tell, federation (at least in the context of Mastodon) is based on who follows whom and what. That's why, for example, even though I follow several people on mastodon.social, I still need to fetch many replies from there.

So, I think that's what's happening here: The two instances will be federated in that they are aware of one another, but they won’t be exchanging every message going forward.

That is my understanding anyway. I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

#mastoadmin #fediverse #fediadmin #activitypub #mastodon

Oh the irony that Meta’s Threads out of all services has a robots.txt that just blank disallows everything 😅

https://www.threads.net/robots.txt

@nixCraft originally my hard drive.

Then some source control system that I never understood and that as far as I could tell ran on a PC that was under my boss’ desk. A nightmare this was!

Then I convinced the boss to let me install and configure git (including some post receive hooks that would automatically deploy to production) and ssh on one of our dedicated servers (we were an IIS house at the time, so neither came pre-installed).

I was so proud of myself at the time, but I think GitHub came about a few months later, so my system didn’t live for very long…