I am testing a Pixelfed instance my handle is tio@pix.trom.tf - and URL pix.trom.tf/tio I tested Pixelfed on the same url 2 years ago and deleted it. Now I reinstalled and recretead it and I feel like some instances cannot grab the new posts...maybe because of that!?
If you can follow me and test if possible. Can you see my latest images I posted the past days?
We will make it public for all as soon as we test if it works properly.
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Folks I am aware our Friendica instance does not work very well lately. Loads super slow or not at all at times. I know and I will try to fix it. But for the past days, on top of my issues with being dumped by my best friend, my father had the 4th stroke in 8 months and my sister had some serious health issues we stayed in ER for 10 hours yesterday.
I am very tired, very depressed, very consumed by life.
As soon as I can look into this issue with Friendica I will.
#friendica #fedi #fediverse #trom #tromsocial
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First, and foremost - Look after yourself!
When you are more in the mood then have a look at these problems, but not before you prioritise yourself and your health!
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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.
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There is a new #friendica app github.com/LiveFastEatTrashRac… - looks super good and I've heard they are promoting our instance too since it is quite lively and reliable.
I only tested the app a bit since I do not use mu phone much, but hey @Rokosun maybe you should give it a try! :) Maybe we finally have a great Friendica app :)
Kudos to the people who are making these things. You are awesome people!
#friendica #fedi #fediverse #mastodon #trade-free #foss #opensource
A Kotlin Multiplatform client for Mastodon and Friendica - LiveFastEatTrashRaccoon/RaccoonForFriendicaGitHub
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Our Friendica is struggling. We get a lot of 502 Bad Gateway (nginx). CPU is at 100% all the time eaten by Friendica. This has happened after the update to the latest Friendica stable. It seems that there are many processes happening in the database.
The post-user table has 64,135,238 rows...I suspect this is an issue. I am not sure if Friendica is reindexing or doing something now after the update...
But needs investigation...sorry for that..
Any tips welcomed!
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Hey if anyone is interested we setup instances for Mastodon, Pixelfed, Friendica, Peertube, Nextcloud and more, See - webape.site/
We do so for a cost so we can afford to also make the many trade-free services and projects we have. See tromsite.com/
If you are interested or may want to help, you can also share this. We setup a separate VPS for each instance and provide updates, support, or custom requests as much as we can, for each instance. Plus an email server for each of them.
#fedi #fediverse #mastodon #friendica #nextcloud #foss #opensource #pixelfed #hosting
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It is working this way:
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Mastodon character limit is such a weird concept and useless and pointless I can't believe is still there. People who want to say more than a paragraph need to split it into "threads"...insane!
Look:
How the fuck you get to read and interact with a post divided into tens of comments.....
This is silly as fuck people.
If you have no character limit, guess what, you can still make short posts. But not vice-versa.
It is beyond me why this is still a thing in 2025. Artificial limitations.
Man I LOVE Friendica! A proper way to make posts and interact with people. And yet not many are aware of Friendica and how awesome it is.
@Meredith Whittaker you should either move to a Mastodon instance without character limitation or try Friendca. You can even use our node social.trom.tf - and that's for anyone else who is bothered by this artificial limitation of Mastodon.
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@aaron
"if an admin can extend the post size limit in Mastodon then that's a cool feature"
I learned it is not a feature to extend post size limit in Mastodon, but a hardcoded value in code, which is very difficult to change depending on deployment method, but possible. They should make this a feature.
And talking about friendica, it looks outdated (the original theme), which does not provide overall confidence, if comparing to new highly extensible, innovative and beautiful bonfire (for example, a flavor of it for scientists: openscience.network/)
Reclaim scientific discourse with federated digital spaces where researchers shape their own conversations, data, and collaborationsOpen Science Network
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Yes that is communication because it showcases the big issue with these LLMs, registrations for these platforms, and perhaps how not to write your bio. This is why I am leaving the post up and added an edit to it. That is for sure an important discussion to have.
If I knew this person is not an LLM of course I would have contacted them. When I made their ID public was for others to be aware of that LLM account - since that is what it looked like.
So yes, I think I reacted in a relevant way to what has happened.
This post's thesis is only valid if "these people" are indeed invading your instance with LLMs, which you now know isn't what happened here. Imagine if someone publicly called you out by name and accused you of something you didn't do. And then kept it up even after confirming that you didn't do it.
This is like me posting "Everyone look out for people trying to get into your houses! Tio just tried to pick my lock (dummy just tried to use some other house's key lol) and then looked around to see if I hid a spare key anywhere... Scary times we live in! Edit: Okay, turns out that they weren't trying to get into my house, they were trying to visit their friend who has an identical house one street down from me."
What would be the point of me leaving this post up?
Perfectly reasonable to leave that post up. You clarify that Tio didnt want to break into your house. Good job! Removing that post after some have shared and seen it, is worse in my opinion. Those people may really think Tio tried to break into your house.
But my post is a lot more relevant because there are comments/discussions around it that are relevant, including this one.
The user has such a weird bio that it will be for sure mistaken with a bot (LLM). So maybe others should get to see this and perhaps think twice before creating a bio where they "joke" about being a robot and an LLM.
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Big thanks to the 200 Euro anonymous donation! Much much appreciated! tromsite.com/donate
We still have an ongoing fundraiser for our backups - gofundme.com/f/paying-for-the-… - we need 40 more Euros. While we can, and we will use some of the money from the latest donation for it in case we do not raise it all, it would be much appreciated if the people who use our services can help us pay for the backups.
Our instances of Friendica, Peertube, Nextcloud, Matrix and more, are used by hundreds if not thousands of people. We are backing up all of their data in the cloud. So please help if you can.
Thanks!
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It is a delight to see people registering to our Friendica almost daily.
And yes these are not bots. Since we "force" anyone who register to tell us why they want to be part of our network (to filter out the bots), I can tell that those who register are not garbage pieces of "AI", but real and interesting humans who are also interested in our TROM project.
Just wonderful! :)
Our platform is a home for anyone who wants to join, granted they don't use it to abuse others or only use it as an ad platform to promote whatever they sell. So basic decency ;).
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Since I am being asked these days about this and see others wondering, we can setup instances of Mastodon, Friendica, Pixelfed, Peertube and a lot more for a cost, in order to support our trade-free projects and instances.
We do it via WebApe.site - prices range from 30 Euros a month. We do everything: set up any instance, update, and all that. No need to worry about any of it.
#mastodon #fediverse #friendica #pixelfed #webhosting #hosting #fediverse
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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…
Friendica package for YunoHost. Contribute to YunoHost-Apps/friendica_ynh development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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How awesome that on the fediverse you can follow our Peertube TROMhome channel directly via tromhome@videos.trom.tf - no need to have any Peertube account. Follow it from your Friendica, Mastodon, or whatever network you are using.
This is light years ahead of the BS of Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and the like, who are islands of ads, controlled by a few rich people.
Thank you to everyone who works on making the fediverse as great as it is!
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Updated Friendica to the latest stable. Everything seems fine. Merged into Yunohost github.com/YunoHost-Apps/frien… - now I am one of the maintainers so that's good, I'll try to keep the package up to date. However we need help with this issue - github.com/YunoHost-Apps/frien…
Friendica package for YunoHost. Contribute to YunoHost-Apps/friendica_ynh development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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in reply to Tio • • •fwiw i can see two posts from the recent days (a sunset and a night sky), and apparently m.w has also a lot of old posts but their pictures (kinda expectedly) say 'no preview available'.
(i have not tried following the account if that's relevant)
Tio
in reply to sad theory • •Thank you for testing. There should be more photos...one from today as well pix.trom.tf/p/tio/100948146324… ... this is what I am afraid that the fediverse cannot pickup these changes unless I force them. If I am to open my latest photo (the URL) in Friendica then it seems is visible....almost like our pixelfed instance waits for someone to look at the new posts via another federated network....maybe this is a Pixelfed issue?! idk....
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sad theory
in reply to Tio • • •that one is what i meant with night sky. but yeah there's still only two recent posts and following doesn't seem to help that yet. (i'll check later again)
one thing i've heard about reusing a domain is some issue with keys, have you looked into that? or maybe also try a different user name but i don't know if/why that could help.
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in reply to Tio • • •here's an article that knows more than i do
fedi.tips/can-i-re-use-an-old-…
also, still no more posts visible from here.
Can I re-use an old subdomain or domain when installing a brand new Fediverse server? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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in reply to Tio • • •@sadth @tio@pix.trom.tf
> this is what I am afraid that the fediverse cannot pickup these changes unless I force them. If I am to open my latest photo (the URL) in Friendica then it seems is visible
This can happen sometimes on the fediverse, check these articles:
fedi.tips/why-does-someones-ac…
fedi.tips/why-arent-all-mastod…
Why aren’t all Mastodon and Fediverse posts and accounts automatically visible from all servers? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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in reply to Rokosun • • •@sadth @tio@pix.trom.tf
The screenshot attached below is what I see from my mastodon account, looks the same as @sadth described. Tho I will point out that the two new images that we can see (the night sky and the sunset) does have something in common - they have both been boosted/reshared by other accounts, this interaction is what probably made my server fetch those posts.
I wasn't following your pixel account before but now I do, so hopefully my server should fetch all future posts correctly....
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Yes I can see your post, see screenshot below. And this post wasn't boosted/reshared by anyone, so it shows that my instance started fetching your new pixelfed posts once someone started following your account (me in this case). So at least we know fosstodon.org is federating correctly with your instance..... I suspect that because your old instance was shut down years ago maybe that helps with the keys issue 🤔
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