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@prashmohan oh, I’ve not heard of that yet. The idea of user selectable algorithms sounds fantastic for people like you and me. It’ll completely overwhelm 99% of the population though 😬
But, given people seem to be put off mastodon because of the complexity of choosing a server, I can’t imagine what the complexity of choosing an algorithm would do to the average user.
Hmmm. My Mastodon server started incurring data transfer costs on April 24. It looks like it exceeded AWS' free tier data transfer for the month... but only shows data transfers totaling 415 GB, in+out. The free tier data transfer is 1 TB. What's going on here?
(It's not going to break the bank, but if there's a way to optimize this I'd love to give it a shot.) #AWS#MastoAdmin
@adam welcome to the world of AWS - where no one truly understands what costs how much.
Billing console should tell you though.
My guess is that it’s the number of transactions: S3 charges for putting data into S3, for each GET request, as well as for each DELETE request.
As mastodon does a lot of those, this is what caused the vast majority of my AWS cost, when I used it for mastodon (which was the reason why I migrated to a different service)
@adam yeah. AWS billing is notoriously opaque and complex…
You should probably look into cloudfront and other services to cache media on the edge, if you aren’t already doing so. Both to reduce cost, and increase performance.
I’m using backblaze b2. I was paying about $6 per month on S3, and went to $1 on B2.
@anders that’s quite a nice number. I think there’s probably a similar number of users for FediFetcher, judging by number of forks+stars on GitHub, but I obviously don’t really know
Do you have any monetisation plans, if you don’t mind me asking?
I’ve received a ton of reports on the follow spam from some random “GX” forum site (you probably all know the one at this point). While I generally DM the reporter once I’ve taken action, right now there are so many that I can’t keep up with the individual “hey, I took care of it” messages.
Please keep the reports coming, unfortunately at the moment it seems like a game of whack-a-mole but I’m doing my best to keep up with the bans.
It’s got something to do with how mastodon pulls in replies to posts from other servers:
If you come across a post from someone on another server, that neither you nor anyone else on your server follows, mastodon will not show you replies to that post.
This could, for example, happen, if someone you follow boosted the post, to make it appear in your home timeline, or if you follow hashtags.
While missing posts happen primarily if you visit the profile of someone from another server that you aren’t following: their profile will often be empty or missing posts.
