Closing down an instance

Posted on Sun 22 October 2023 in Technical • Tagged with tech, Culture, Fediverse, Mastodon, Musing

I set up offworld.fedisonic.cloud when it was apparent that Twitter was going to start circling the drain pretty quickly. I had an idea of running a Mastodon instance for anyone in my circle who wanted it, but with my usual overambition I started to think that it could …


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Adding S3-compatible cloud storage to Pixelfed

Posted on Mon 11 September 2023 in Technical • Tagged with tech, fediverse, pixelfed, s3

Pixelfed is a federated photo sharing service that is an alternative to Instagram and uses ActivityPub to share posts across other services such as Mastodon, Pleroma and indeed WordPress. It is one of the more mature Fediverse apps and has been in continuous development for several years.

As with Mastodon …


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On defederation

Posted on Mon 07 August 2023 in Technical • Tagged with tech, fediverse, fediblock

The Apple TV series Mythic Quest had an episode in which the game found it had an extreme right wing problem. Their solution was to corral the right wingers in a server where they could shout at each other and fight as much as they wanted without bothering other players …


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