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LostXOR, in Fedia.io upgraded to mbin 1.7.1-rc1 + important note about streaming updates

I was wondering why Fedia was 500-ing; thanks for your work!

jerry, in What actually happens when posting to a microblog?
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Anyone who follows you across the fediverse can see the post

atro_city,

So people have to explicitly follow me to see the post? It doesn't show up on feed like mastodons?

jerry,
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It’s more nuanced than that. If they look at your profile from a mastodon/etc instance, they’ll see the post. If they are on an instance that has someone who follows you and watch the federated/globel feed, they’ll see the post. And a few other specific situations.

atro_city,

Thank you for explaining!

jerry, in 403 forbidden when DMing
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Hello. I applied the most recent mbin upgrades, which I believe may fix this. can you try again?

ciferecaNinjo,

It works. Thanks!

jerry, in 403 forbidden when DMing
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Hi. Yes, nearly all the previous issues have been fixed. There are still occasional issues with federation breaking, but I’m working on that.

I will try to reproduce the DM issue between this instance and a lemmy instance. It would not surprising me if that doesn’t work, though.

originalucifer, in Favorites/reduces and search option question
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downvote information can be use retaliatory... its hidden to keep people civil

Beneath_the_storm,

Where there such complaints in kbin? In kbin if they downvoted you usually they would explain their reasoning promoting discussion. Anonymous downvoting creates in my opinion less positive environment for civil growth and discussion.

originalucifer,
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its been discussed at length. downvote information can be procedurally abused (bots). the same cannot be said for upvotes.

remember we're not building for a specific community, but for an entire ecosystem where there can be bad actors.

DaGeek247, in Unplanned downtime on Fedia.io
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You mentioned that fedia has a very small number of active users. Is there a place I can learn more about this? What is large amount, and what do you consider to be active?

jerry,
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Fedia.io has 422 monthly active users - basically, 422 accounts have logged in within the past 30 days. I suppose I am comparing it to infosec.exchange, which has about 15000 monthly active users. I do believe that fedia.io is the most active mbin or kbin instance, by a factor of 2 or 3, but relatively quiet in comparison to Mastodon and Lemmy.

DarkThoughts, in Unplanned downtime on Fedia.io

Do those specific servers have any specific hardware that would indicate why they fail so much? Do they cheap out on something?

jerry,
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Hetzner makes their own servers in a form factor that works for their rack space. There are lots of YouTube videos on that. I don’t know specifically why these are failing, but being an old time engineer and knowing the CPU they are running, I am going to bet it has something to do with cooling. Either the main board is getting too hot (I monitor CPU temp and that seemed fine) or it is related to either vibration from the certainly larger CPU fan it needs, or somehow related to how the CPU impacts the power supply - possibly creating noise that ultimately burns out capacitors or something similar.

jerry, in Anyone experienced with graphic designing interested in creating a mascot for m/AskMbin (successor to m/AskKbin) and other Mbin communities?
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Apologies for having registrations closed. The moderation tools in Mbin/kbin are very very basic and I keep experiencing large numbers of spam signups, with no meaningful way to handle them until they sign up and start spamming

TheArstaInventor,
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Hey! Thanks for the response and no worries I figured out spam was likely the reason behind he temporarily closure of new sign up's.

Btw let me know if you are in need of more admins, id gladly contribute to help the server as I have a long experience as mod already on reddit and the fediverse.

jerry, in Terms of Service needs to be updated? Still says Kbin, when we are using mbin.
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I will add that to my to do list

swab148, in Anyone experienced with graphic designing interested in creating a mascot for m/AskMbin (successor to m/AskKbin) and other Mbin communities?
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jerry, in Looks like Fedia isn't updating again
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yes, it's working on catching up now.

DarkThoughts, in New magazine doesn't federate with Lemmy?

You generally seem to need to have at least 1 account from that instance subscribed to your magazine for federation to kick in (which then still can take a bit of time). Same works the other way around. The unfortunate thing is that you kinda have to use external community / magazine indexers to search for them, unless you know the exact name & instance domain they're in, since a search won't find non indexed ones by itself.

Imo one of the largest issues regarding the fediverse.

pgetsos,

Yeah, I hope it gets "fixed" at some point ("fixed" because I guess it is by design). For now, I created an account to most large Lemmy servers and subscribed to the magazine so future users find a fuller community :P

maniacalmanicmania, in New magazine doesn't federate with Lemmy?
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Language setting?

pgetsos,

Could you elaborate a bit?

maniacalmanicmania,
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I was wondering if the language settings in a user's profile meant that they cannot see your posts. I enabled Greek but it doesn't seem to have made any difference.

pgetsos,

I think the language settings only changes what you see in your main feed, and not the community feed. Though I may be wrong...

Hopefully @jerry could help us undestand the issue!

pgetsos,

So, I created a lemmy.world account just to subscribe and check if the federation now works. It works, but only for new posts, which is not ideal either. Hopefully federation can be fixed for older posts as well (I know that comments need someone from your instance to have subscribed to that community, but posts should always be visible to others)

maniacalmanicmania,
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I subscribed to Greece@fedia.io just now (using Voyager). I'll let you know if I see any posts.

jerry,
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Which lemmy instance were you not seeing it on? One of the challenges with all fediverse applications (mbin, lemmy, mastodon, etc) is that posts and comments don’t federate with other instances unless someone on the other instance follows the person or the magazine.

I do not believe existing posts and comments will federate to a different instance after someone on that instance subscribes to the magazine. Only new posts and comments will.

maniacalmanicmania,
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@pgetsos like you, after subscribing I only see new posts.

pgetsos,

I see. Too bad, but hopefully this is something that may get fixed in a future ActivityPub protocol update (don't know if it is sth the applications can fix themselves)

subignition, in Scheduled downtime for Fedia.io on July 1, 2024
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Where is the donation page?

jerry,
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Thank you for asking. It's on our about page here: https://fedia.io/about

DarkThoughts, in Whee! How a year passes…

I think one thread would've sufficed.

notsure,
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I wrote to the mod and requested the 2 additional be removed. Something wrong on my commit end or something technical....

DarkThoughts,

You can delete your own threads & comments yourself.

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