TechBean, 4 days ago to mastodon

Friendly reminder, #Mastodon instances are run by volunteers shelling out their own money for hosting. While it's free for us to use, it's not free for them to run.

Support your admins.

#FediTips #Fediverse

https://mstdn.social/@stux/112442312039772572

cadusilva, 5 days ago to random

Admin, if you're reading this, consider using a CDN to deliver your media.

You can use services like Cloudflare (for free) or Bunny CDN (for cheap).

Recurrently, images and videos in a post fail to load here because it took too much time to download them.

And indeed, when you click to see the media, it takes a while to finish.

With a CDN you'll free your server from this load and distribute it via the CDN, from the closest point to your users.

Or, you know, other servers creating a cache of your images and videos. Mastodon does this by default.

Other platforms, like Akkoma, loads the file directly from your instance, so it's another burden taken away from your server if you use a CDN.

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #FediTips

box464, 5 days ago to random

The three things that have helped me find a safe, happy social home on a larger instance are carefully curating who I follow, the hashtags I follow and keyword muting. This is my own self generated algorithm.

Still getting my bearings about how to make a smaller instance just as vibrant. Relays? Being more lax about who I follow? Maybe some of the newer fedi platforms like @newsmast and @Flipboard can help. I know @mammoth has hand curated topic feeds as well.

#FediTips

cliffwade, 7 days ago to random

Thread 🧵

@beardedtechguy and myself are looking for someone that is willing, able and has time to help us with infrastructure related things.

We are looking to fully self host our instance so that we have full control over everything related to the instance. This means we need/want someone that has experience running a self hosted instance and has the time to help Kyle with things when he's not around to do various things. (cont...)

cliffwade, 8 days ago to community

Thread 🧵

@beardedtechguy and myself are looking for someone to help us grow #AllThingsTech in every way possible. This includes our blog, our instance, our wiki, our Discord and our community in general.

We're looking for someone that is super active here on Mastodon and will continue to do so going forward.

We're looking for someone that is willing to talk about the instance, advertise the instance and recruit for the instance if possible. (cont...)

#Community #Blog #Site #Mastodon

rochacbruno, 25 days ago to til

#TIL: Do not use your root domain name to test federated software, once you federate your domain is registered across multiple instances and relays, there is no way to rollback, you can't reuse that same domain with a different implemention, and even reinstalling the same service might break if you change the keys.

I locked my domain name to Mastodon 🤦‍♂️

#FediTips

jcoigdanes, 28 days ago to random

How do you guys make friends or connections here? Looking to boost my network and have more intellectually stimulating conversations :))

TheHardyBoyCats, 29 days ago to random

@tooters Hi! I'm hoping to migrate this week and am not sure, do I need to set up another account first?
I've done this before, so I'm sure I can do it again, I just get anxious and forget all of the particulars!