Liebe Community,

der geplante Neustart des Hypervisors ist abgeschlossen – alle Dienste stehen wieder auf Grün!

Warum hat es etwas länger gedauert?

Während der Wartung haben wir auf mehreren Servern einen unerwarteten Apache2-Prozess entdeckt – unter anderem auch auf dem Proxy-Manager, auf dem Nginx läuft. Woher dieser genau stammte, ist uns aktuell noch nicht vollständig klar – wir haben ihn jedoch auf allen betroffenen Systemen entfernt und die Konfigurationen bereinigt. Alles läuft wieder stabil.

Wir entschuldigen uns für die etwas längere Ausfallzeit als ursprünglich geplant und danken euch für eure Geduld.

Solltet ihr dennoch Probleme feststellen, meldet euch gerne bei uns!

Question, did you watch the video? Because your answers have absolutely nothing to do with my question.

In the video, it just sounds weird, as if Vivaldi had built some kind of Fediverse features into the browser.

What social networking features does Vivaldi actually have? They only run a Mastodon instance, don’t they?

I utilize the GECOS field within my Ansible scripts to facilitate the identification of these entities as being managed by Ansible.

That depends on whether the software allows it; Mastodon uses the AUTHORIZED_FETCH variable for this. If it’s active, blocked instances can no longer fetch posts via AP.

Yes, as long as it’s not blocked, it can federate just like any other software.

I’m thinking about switching back to Arch or maybe trying Debian; I’m on Fedora Silverblue at the moment.

How does Debian get so far up north?

Now that you mention it, I see it too, but it really does look like a blocky android xD

Which distro uses this android as its logo? Purple flag.

Of course, I can’t say anything about other forums.

So I can find the forum and subscribe to it if I want.

I can’t say anything about calling handles with !, but if I follow the handle on Mastodon, it works anyway.

As far as I can see, you can ask questions and follow categories if the admin sets this up. Here is an example: events@forum.fedimins.net

You can only post if you connect your Fediverse account to the forum.

I didn’t give it nearly as much thought before I started.

In terms of price, you can set a very low price for a single-user instance. Hetzner and Netcup, for example, offer very affordable VPS (these are providers I know of, but there are certainly others).

I don’t see open registration as a problem either. I’ve had it for years, and when I get waves of spam, which is very rare, I switch to moderated mode, otherwise it remains open.

I would host software according to your preferences. I should have kept Friendica running and turned off Mastodon, but that ship has sailed for me.

For a single-user instant, it might be interesting to connect to a relay; it is important that it is moderated. Fedimins offers such a service.

That sounds like Fedimins. We use Discourse with the AP plugin. https://fedimins.net/

For blogging, I can recommend Writefreely. Hubzilla and Friendica both have features similar to Facebook.

Sorry, I must not have been awake enough, I misread it. kbin is dead when I look at the repo, but piefed still looks very young as a project.

And pixelfed is your alternative? That’s not even close to the same usecase.