In der Juni-Ausgabe meiner @gnulinux -Kolumne "Ückück und das #Fediverse" geht es dieses Mal um das Thema private Nachrichten, was wir als Mods und Admins wirklich sehen und warum ihr für eure Chats immer verschlüsselte Messenger verwenden solltet.
Den Artikel zum Nachlesen- und hören gibt es hier:
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Trying to run a little experiment and want to make sure my understanding is correct.
If I post something on my fediverse server, assuming it takes some time to reach all of my followers' servers, does that post get inserted into their feeds as if posted at the original time, or rather on top of their feed, but with the original timestamp?
Example. I post something at 10am. It takes 5 minutes for it to reach your server. Someone on your server posts something at 10:04, showing up instantly on your feed.
Will my post be above or below that post? Does different fediverse software handle this differently?
Great questions! I've often wondered about timing from smaller instances ... it's very noticeable when I switch back and forth between Pixelfed and Mastodon. I follow mostly the same accounts in both places ... often I'll see something first in my Pixelfed feed, and it's later before I see the same post in my Mastodon feed. Not by a big difference but certainly a noticeable delay. 🤔
Hm. I wonder if I can get any fediverse admins onboard to disable all images on their instance on the World Sight Day in October, so that only alt text shows up.
What's the best way to tidy up the public/system/cache folder in a #Mastodon instance?
My public/system/media_attachments is on 3.3GB.
However, public/system/cache/media_attachments is 22GB!
Similarly, public/system/accounts is 97MB, whereas cache/accounts is 22GB
How should I clear down this massive cache?
I've tried tootctl cache clear but nothing seems to change in the cache folder.
In total the cache folder is 55GB, everything outwith cache consumes only 6GB. It's making my backups massive and long to run.
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About 1.5 years of running a small mastodon server.
Running costs currently are about 1€ per active user a month.
Would probably scale to a lot more users with not much cost increase. CPU-wise the server barely has any load.
A very big chunk of the cost is just the caching of media files. about 120GB for 3 days worth of caching
@arch just the normal cleanup job that runs once a day. Nothing extra.
Main usage of the storage comes from the connection to the infosec.exchange relay. Storage usage went up quite a bit since adding that. But it's really needed when you want posts to be spread a little and see an active federated timeline
@stefan im not at a keyboard at the moment. But i also run digitaldarkage as a self host. I have a cron job that runs cleanups every night at a minimum. Can give you some of my statistics in a bit if you're interested
Where are fellow #Mastoadmins planning what tools we need to combat the spam wave? Where are we planning features improvement to Mastodon (the software) or 3rd party tools to counteract this spam wave?
The Feb 2024 mastodon spam attack should be a learning lesson, and we should make our tools robust so this doesn't/cannot happen again.