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| POLL: Any Interest in an EEVblog Mastodon server? |
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| Jackster:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on November 24, 2022, 03:06:46 am ---Thanks. Yeah, that's what I thought, sounds like a just a management nightmare. I'm some would bitch they want to connect to all servers, and others that just want a local EE community. Sounds like a world of hurt. --- End quote --- It is somewhat self-moderating. Content only gets pulled from other servers if users follow other users on those other servers. Users somewhat also have to go looking for the bad stuff. When I was running one, yea a few people complained but out of 50-60k users, we are talking a handful. I really don't see it being an issue with a few tech people. That and you can give trusted people moderation power. There are a few technology-related instances that I am sure users would want to connect with. --- Quote from: John B on November 24, 2022, 12:30:42 am ---I've been hearing mixed things. I like the idea of decentralisation for social media. You can self select if you want an echo chamber. But is it bound by german speech laws? --- End quote --- Only if you are on a server hosted in Germany or operated by a German company. Masteron.social for example is both. But if you host a server in the USA, then you are only bound by US laws while on that server. |
| tszaboo:
--- Quote from: MrMobodies on November 24, 2022, 12:08:07 am ---Seeing that it is decentralized I think it's an idea worth looking into especially if Twitter starts banning people/content or doing unfavourable stuff to the masses on there like what happened with Youtube and the dislike counter. I wonder, is it possible to synchronize and replicate all of your Twitter posts and tweets on that platform just as a backup incase anything happens. --- End quote --- To back it up? I went there a year ago and deleted all my tweets. It's just a question of time until someone finds something offensive in your tweets and cancel you. I don't think having an online trail of thoughts is safe in the 21st century, they are cancelling dead people now, because they said things in 1980 that's not acceptable today :palm:. |
| AndyBeez:
It is certainly worth trialling an instance. I could find very little information about server sizing specifics, other than, more videos, more disk, more users, more bandwidth. I assume the instance is to be hosted in sunny NSW and not in the USA - like the forum is here? Though exploring the content on https://mastodon.social/ , as well as the MAGA crowd, there's a lot of people posting pictures of cake on trains. Still, nothing to lose for being a pioneer bringing tech to the platform. |
| Jackster:
--- Quote from: AndyBeez on November 24, 2022, 05:45:23 pm ---It is certainly worth trialling an instance. I could find very little information about server sizing specifics, other than, more videos, more disk, more users, more bandwidth. --- End quote --- They don't share how much you need as it is so varied on how many active users you have, how many connections to other server instances you have and what is being done on your instance. From my experience. 500-1000 users (not online at the same time), you are looking at 2 CPU cores and 4-6GB RAM (Redis likes RAM). Offload all media onto S3 compatible CDNs. Do not host it yourself! Not worth the disk space or HTTPS requests hitting your server. If users upload a lot of video content, more CPU is needed as it uses FFMPEG to transcode video to whatever resolution and bitrate the host sets (you can offload this to GPU if you have one). When I had an instance, it was around 1000-2000 concurrent users online during peak hours. 2x 4 CPU frontend servers for Nginx/Ruby and FFMPEG (these were load balanced via hardware) 2x 4 CPU backend for Sidekick (this processes tasks like new messages, pushing and pulling messages/content etc) 1x 4 CPU backend for Postgresql/Redis databases. 1x 2 CPU frontend CDN server that cached 250GB of media content in front of an S3 bucket. When doing S3 on a budget, you want to cache as much as possible as requests cost money and so does bandwidth. This server alone was doing 250-500mbps on average 24/7. |
| ebastler:
--- Quote from: John B on November 24, 2022, 12:30:42 am ---But is it bound by german speech laws? --- End quote --- No, you would be allowed to speak English. ::) Seriously though -- what "German speech laws" were you thinking of? |
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