Tio

tio@social.trom.tf

A bunch of atoms that are curious about the world, but furious about the society. We should help all humans to have a decent life without any strings attached, so that we can understand us, the atoms, and the rest of the universe. And create a smarter and saner society.

Since 2005 I make documentaries, write books, and enable many trade-free platforms for everyone.

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Tio

Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 9:35 AM

Tio
Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 9:35 AM

Our Friendica (TROM Social) failed to update to the latest stable. Likely this bug github.com/YunoHost-Apps/frien…

Seems easy to solve, but since our database is massive, around 80GB, it took around 20 hours to restore....

I understand that it totally sucks for a Social Network to be down for almost a day. People may be put off and not want to use Friendica anymore. Or our instance at least. But our instance has been very reliable for the past years and I always email people to tell them about updating it, so they are aware such things can happen.

Also, our budget for TROM.tf is around €0, compared to the billions floating around Facebook and the like. So please understand that.

Today we will give the update another try, and it is likely to work. If it doesn't at least thanks to @YunoHost a backup will be automatically restored.

#friendica #yunohost #fedi #fediverse

#Yunohost #Friendica #fediverse #fedi @YunoHost

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Tio

Unknown parent Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 3:21 PM

It has been restored so we did not update yet. When we will try again I will message everyone ahead of time.

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Tio

Unknown parent Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 8:59 PM

The update error has nothing to do with this...

Tio

Friday, February 6, 2026, 11:08 AM

Tio
Friday, February 6, 2026, 11:08 AM

Friendica updated to the latest stable. Man this was fast. Huge thanks to the wonderful people behind Friendica and also Yunohost.

Testing the Peertube embed:

TROM II: A Message to The Aliens (trailer)

I wonder if I now paste a Peertube link it can embed the player directly into the post. That would be amazing.

And some hashtags: #friendica #trom #yunohost #fedi #fediverse

#Yunohost #Friendica #fediverse #trom #fedi

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Wilhelm

in reply to Tio Friday, February 6, 2026, 11:32 AM

I thought I saw an embedded Peertube video working in a friendica post.

videos.trom.tf/w/uzsWV9z42KKG6…

Is just pasting the URL not working? Hm, with both options shown in your screenshot enabled, I still only see the link in both your and my post.

This is what this looks like for me on 2026.04dev:

Tio

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Tio

in reply to Wilhelm Friday, February 6, 2026, 11:34 AM

It is working this way:

If you just paste the Peertube URL it creates a link preview with the embed Peertube video and the description. Is cool but can be a lot since instead of just grabbing the video it grabs it all: title, description, etc.
If you use the VIDEO code tag it can just embed the video inline, which is perfect. However it still creates a link preview like above which is not ideal.

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Tio

in reply to Wilhelm Friday, February 6, 2026, 11:41 AM

I opened an issue here github.com/friendica/friendica…

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Sunday, May 4, 2025, 11:13 PM

Tio
Sunday, May 4, 2025, 11:13 PM

If anyone can afford to support @YunoHost I highly recommend forum.yunohost.org/t/donation-… - even small donations count.

Direct link - yunohost.org/donate.html

I personally donate 10 Euros a month, despite our projects being underfunded and us providing a lot of services for free.

But hey I use Yunohost a lot and they deserve some help!

#yunohost #foss #selfhosting #opensource

YunoHost: garden your own piece of the Internet!

YunoHost is a system that installs itself on a server and allows you to install and maintain - with very little technical knowledge - digital services (apps) that you control.

^yunohost.org

#Yunohost #opensource #selfhosting #foss @YunoHost

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Lohan Gunaweera

in reply to Tio Monday, May 5, 2025, 12:47 AM (Received Monday, May 5, 2025, 1:14 AM)

#YunoHost is great. I run this very Pleroma instance on it :) @yunohost

#Yunohost @YunoHost

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Davide Eynard (+mala)

in reply to Lohan Gunaweera Monday, May 5, 2025, 3:30 PM

@lohang TY for sharing, I am looking to set up my own fediverse instance and I wanted to give #YunoHost a try… it’s great to know you are so happy with it!

How I got here: @_elena boosted @tio ‘s message, @yunohost you have a lot of friends 💙

(ah btw, I donated regardless of how things will turn out for me, as I want to support #SelfHosting 🙏)

#Yunohost #selfhosting @Tio @YunoHost @Elena Rossini 🌈 @Lohan Gunaweera

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Lohan Gunaweera

in reply to Davide Eynard (+mala) Monday, May 5, 2025, 4:30 PM

@mala I am very happy to hear this! :) Not only Pleroma, I use several other critical services on #YunoHost running on various servers including mail, NextCloud, WordPress etc. I highly recommend it. If needed, it is easy to find support in the forums and here on the fediverse too.

@_elena @tio @yunohost

#Yunohost @Tio @YunoHost @Davide Eynard (+mala) @Elena Rossini 🌈

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morph ⌂

in reply to Lohan Gunaweera Monday, May 5, 2025, 4:44 PM

@Lohan Gunaweera @Tio @Davide Eynard (+mala) @Elena Rossini ⁂
FYI We have set up a little (group) forum a while ago regarding to run federated social web software on your yunohost.
As it's running on hubzilla it might depend on your ActivityPub platform to work as expected.

👉🏻 @Social Web on YunoHost

@Tio @Davide Eynard (+mala) @Elena Rossini 🌈 @Lohan Gunaweera

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Lohan Gunaweera

in reply to morph ⌂ Monday, May 5, 2025, 4:58 PM (Received Monday, May 5, 2025, 5:25 PM)

@morph By the looks of it, I am unable to join with a Pleroma account. But I bookmarked the address, so I can keep an eye on the discussions.

@mala @_elena @yunohost @tio

@Tio @YunoHost @Davide Eynard (+mala) @Elena Rossini 🌈 @morph ⌂

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morph ⌂

in reply to Lohan Gunaweera Monday, May 5, 2025, 5:25 PM

@Lohan Gunaweera There's a long known problem between Pleroma and Hubzilla. Devs been on it together but not able to solve it.

@Lohan Gunaweera

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Lohan Gunaweera

in reply to morph ⌂ Monday, May 5, 2025, 5:30 PM (Received Monday, May 5, 2025, 6:38 PM)

@morph Can Mastodon users (or users on other non-Hubzilla sites) join these groups? I miss #fedgroups !

#fedgroups @morph ⌂

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morph ⌂

in reply to Lohan Gunaweera Monday, May 5, 2025, 6:38 PM

@Lohan Gunaweera Yes, it's possible. Just Pleroma makes trouble (afaik). It might be just not so nice to handle as from hubzilla/friendica/streams... like platforms though.This is mostly about handling threads/conversations on the Mastodon site.

@Lohan Gunaweera

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Tio

in reply to Tio Monday, May 5, 2025, 4:00 PM

Updated the post to tag the active @YunoHost account!

@YunoHost

Tio

Sunday, March 2, 2025, 8:39 PM

Tio
Sunday, March 2, 2025, 8:39 PM

Our updated forum, finally! - forum.tromjaro.com/t/our-updat…

This is a very short post to tell you that we have finally updated our Discourse forum to the latest. For the past year (or more) the Yunohost package for Discourse (what we use) was quite broken and we ended up having an entire separate server just or the forum since we could not update the server itself because of it. Therefore we had an old forum on an old server.

Now we managed to do some gymnastics and move it to our main server and update it. Finally! From now on I hope there will be no more such issues.

I was willing to even give up on all of our forum posts, accounts and comments just to be able to update it and not pay for a separate server for it.

But now all is good. All is fixed apparently.

Many thanks to the folks from Yunohost for the work that they do! And to those who made the Discourse software!

#yunohost #discourse #forum #linux

#Yunohost #Linux #discourse #forum

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Unknown parent Sunday, March 2, 2025, 8:49 PM

Much appreciated!

Tio

Saturday, January 11, 2025, 3:39 PM

Tio
Saturday, January 11, 2025, 3:39 PM

I was finally able to upgrade Yunohost to the latest Debian 12. Remember my struggle social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc4… ?

So we managed to fix the Borg package for YNH. Thus I was able to have proper backups. I made backups for all of the apps and YNH.
Bought a dedicated server from Hetzner that was still providing Debian 11 images.
Installed YNH there
Restored all backups there except for the TROMjaro Forum (Discord) that's broken.
Managed to do the YNH upgrade there
Bought a Webdock Server (where our websites were originally hosted)
Installed the new YNH there
Restored the backups
Made a mistake and bought an expensive server, could not downgrade, bought yet another one from Webdock and migrated the websites there (easier this time, snapshot based)

It was a LOT of work. Not click here and do that. Debug, fix, wait...I worked almost 24h since yesterday. But now all seems to be fine. New server. Everything upda

I was finally able to upgrade Yunohost to the latest Debian 12. Remember my struggle social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc4… ?

So we managed to fix the Borg package for YNH. Thus I was able to have proper backups. I made backups for all of the apps and YNH.
Bought a dedicated server from Hetzner that was still providing Debian 11 images.
Installed YNH there
Restored all backups there except for the TROMjaro Forum (Discord) that's broken.
Managed to do the YNH upgrade there
Bought a Webdock Server (where our websites were originally hosted)
Installed the new YNH there
Restored the backups
Made a mistake and bought an expensive server, could not downgrade, bought yet another one from Webdock and migrated the websites there (easier this time, snapshot based)

It was a LOT of work. Not click here and do that. Debug, fix, wait...I worked almost 24h since yesterday. But now all seems to be fine. New server. Everything updated.

I have left the TROMjaro Forum on the old server and downgraded its hardware to its lowest possible to keep it cheap. In total we pay a bit less than before despite all of these since I am able to get the money back from all of these servers because I used them for less than 24h. Thus the rush. We are super low on money so we have to be careful about these things.

This was the hardest thing I had to do these past months. Took over a month to fix it overall but now I can relax a bit.

There is a lot of work behind these websites, you know.... But I am happy with the end result.

I love our TROMsite.com, TROMjaro.com, TROMhome.com, VideoNeat.com, Trade-Free.org, TROMnews.com :)

#yunohost #sysadmin #servers #foss

Tio

2025-01-09 00:41:28

Very much stuck with updating our TROMsite server. That is all of the websites we have except the TROM.tf ones.
Here's the conundrum:
We use @YunoHost and a VPS.
YNH pushed a big update recently from Debian 11 to 12.
Our VPS is containerized and fails to do this big update through YNH. Thus a fatal failure and unable to reach the server if we update. Nuked. Took many failed attempts, and many days to figure the reason.
The hosting company cannot help in any way.
Solution (not really):
Buy a new VPS with Debian 11 (not too easy to find)
Install an older YNH there.
Restore our YNH setup from the older one using Borg and do the update to Debian 12 from that server.
BUMMER!
- The Borg YNH app is broken and thus all of our backups are broken. An issue with the folder structure inside the backup archives. Seems easy to fix and they are fixing it, but we need to wait for the update.
AFTER BORG IS FIXED:
- Say we buy a new server with Debian 11. Restore YNH there and do the update there.
TROMjaro FORUM WILL BE DEAD:
- There is a huge issue it seems with Discourse (the TROMjaro forum software we use). It did not receive any updates in months and months. And it fails to restore any backup on any system. Thus if we move to a new server in order to update to YNH Debian 12, we cannot restore the forum.
Very very difficult, if not impossible situation.
#yunohost #server #sysadmin #debian

#Yunohost #foss #sysadmin #Servers

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Thursday, January 9, 2025, 6:09 PM

Tio
Thursday, January 9, 2025, 6:09 PM

Updated Friendica to the latest. All seems to work fine. Super fast. Pushed the commit to the YNH master package - github.com/YunoHost-Apps/frien…

#yunohost #friendica

GitHub - YunoHost-Apps/friendica_ynh: Friendica package for YunoHost

Friendica package for YunoHost. Contribute to YunoHost-Apps/friendica_ynh development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

#Yunohost #Friendica

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Thursday, January 9, 2025, 12:41 AM

Tio
Thursday, January 9, 2025, 12:41 AM

Very much stuck with updating our TROMsite server. That is all of the websites we have except the TROM.tf ones.

Here's the conundrum:

We use @YunoHost and a VPS.
YNH pushed a big update recently from Debian 11 to 12.
Our VPS is containerized and fails to do this big update through YNH. Thus a fatal failure and unable to reach the server if we update. Nuked. Took many failed attempts, and many days to figure the reason.
The hosting company cannot help in any way.

Solution (not really):

Buy a new VPS with Debian 11 (not too easy to find)
Install an older YNH there.
Restore our YNH setup from the older one using Borg and do the update to Debian 12 from that server.

BUMMER!
- The Borg YNH app is broken and thus all of our backups are broken. An issue with the folder structure inside the backup archives. Seems easy to fix and they are fixing it, but we need to wait fo

#Server #Yunohost #debian #sysadmin @YunoHost

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Rokosun

in reply to Tio Thursday, January 9, 2025, 4:30 AM

If someone could fix the Discourse app on YNH that would be nice 😅

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David W. Jones

in reply to Tio Thursday, January 9, 2025, 5:48 AM

Good luck.

For what it's worth, I had more problems updating Ubuntu on my wife's old laptop from 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS than I did migrating my laptop from Debian 11 to Debian 12... But I don't have server stuff running on either of those, so I don't have the complexity you have!

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Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 9:35 AM

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Friday, February 6, 2026, 11:08 AM

TROM II: A Message to The Aliens (trailer)

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TROM II: A Message to The Aliens (trailer)

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Sunday, May 4, 2025, 11:13 PM

YunoHost: garden your own piece of the Internet!

Lohan Gunaweera

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Sunday, March 2, 2025, 8:39 PM

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Thursday, January 9, 2025, 6:09 PM

GitHub - YunoHost-Apps/friendica_ynh: Friendica package for YunoHost

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TROM II: A Message to The Aliens (trailer)

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