I think it is a bad idea for instance admins (fediverse) to ban entire instances. Unless there is a very very very serious motive behind it. And make it public when you do. Because this will cut ties with those instances and the users from your own instance will be unable to reach anyone from those banned instances. This is a dangerous game that many on the fediverse are playing. They seem to not grasp the consequences.

If we ever ban any instance then we will first announce it to all of our users, and then make it public. But unless there is severe spam flooding our servers, I do not see a reason to do that.

Users can block other users and for some federated networks they can block entire instances. Let the users decide! Not a handful of "admins". #tromlive

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From what I understand, scuttlebutt can be used to connect directly with peers. Pubs are just optional, and they have the same power as a user on scuttlebutt, the only difference is that it'll be online most of the time. I hope they don't fuck things up with this reputation system of theirs, but if its a decentralized kinda system that can be used by you & your friends without much global impact, that seems OK to me.
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I like moderation to be like how adblockers work today, we make a list of users that could be blocked, and we categorise them into topics like nudity, violence, etc. so we can choose what to block. This kinda system should be opt in and shouldn't block anyone by default. Ublock origin allows us to use different blocklists, so we can change from one to other easily, the same should be true here. If a blocklist has problems, we can criticize it and/or fork it if necessary.

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I almost toasted our trom.tf server while trying to fix invidious....that's it am giving up for now. Removed invidious and nitter form torm.tf temporarily. Alexio may install them on his own server so we test with that, while keeping the same domain names. I do not need this stress in my life haha. Damn I dodged the bullet there. Lesson learned. See status.trom.tf #tromlive

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We have a new cool tool thanks to @Alexio ! status.trom.tf/

This page shows in almost real time the status of all of our websites. And it is hosted and managed by Alexio so that if our servers are down, this page won't be affected.

Big thanks to Alexio for this!

Such a page is important especially for trom.tf services, so that you can see what services are more reliable. And for us to keep track of what websites may not work properly, so that we can fix them. #tromimg




A big thank you to those that keep on supporting us monthly/weekly! We have enough money to make it till (maybe) March. See https://www.tromsite.com/donate/

You support 39 trade-free books, hundreds of videos, a documentary + one in the making; You support a curated news/videos website that is updated daily; another website full of trade-free documentaries and courses; a trade-free Operating System + hundreds of hand curated trade-freee apps; 24 trade-free services that are alternatives to big online services from google services to facebook and so forth; you support our Trade Free Directory and more.

We do a ton of these and we push this trade-freee idea!

If you can, please help us so that we keep on doing these. Being low on money will put a pressure on us and the project. #tromlive


Friendica seems to be working now after I've done some new changes. See github.com/friendica/friendica…

These also seemed to have fixed @Aaron 's instance. I would be so happy if that's the case. But lets give it a week or so and then I can say for sure.

I've also done the same change to our Invidious and so far works great. No more 502 nginx errors. But, I also don't want to celebrate this too early.

So let's see....

Tomorrow I want to do some stuff from my to-do list, like add a new documentary to VN, do some tromjaro stuff to prepare for the new ISO, and such. To then be free again for TROM II, who waits for me :) .

Everything else is fine. ofc except money :D. haha #tromlive

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UCEPROTECTL3 167.86.72.173 was listed <-- the server is listed

Connecting to 167.86.72.173

220 tromland.nohost.me Service ready [258 ms]
EHLO keeper-us-east-1c.mxtoolbox.com
250-tromland.nohost.me
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 35914708
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250-DSN
250 CHUNKING [210 ms]
MAIL FROM:supertool@mxtoolboxsmtpdiag.com
250 2.1.0 Ok [210 ms]
RCPT TO:test@mxtoolboxsmtpdiag.com
554 5.7.1 test@mxtoolboxsmtpdiag.com: Relay access denied [300 ms]

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The ip address has a TTL of 2100 or so and that used to be a reason for rbls to block items. I would simply contact the owner of the blocklist and ask them what to do. If there is a lot of spam going out through that server then it will never be whitelisted.

There is one advantage, you can ask for a ptr record and setup your own mailserver. Do be aware that needs to be maintained too

Taking a few days break. Kinda....

My back hurts for the past 10 days and is getting quite annoying. Sitting down doesnt help. So I need to get away from this death-chair.

But also I am privileged to read @Sasha ' s book. FINALLY. Works quite well: I need a few days break from the computer and she just finished the book. At least the vast majority of it. Is kinda done! Done enough for her to share it with me. So I will be the first one to read it. Very very excited.

She worked so hard on this book, since 2017. All about her wonderful and so original lifestyle. Plus, she also talks a lot about our society and even TROM :D.

So yah, I will get lazy these days, relax, read her book. Immerse into it. :)

#tromlive

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