🍱 Sean Todd ☕ @GigaByte4711@whitespashe.uk

It is proven! I am seantodd on Keybase: https://keybase.io/seantodd/sigchain#02a041fcb125bfc89ab9f6c8173af5afb288c30f960e8fb2e8c3542c86eb785f0f

So, whitespashe.uk has lost all of it's toots.
This is due to a truncate command being run on the local statuses table, including the cascade option to include other related tables.

Normal functionality is there, so I don't think anything else has been affected. I'll try to see if there's a way of reimporting our user account exports, but if not:
Whitespashe.uk has been given a fresh start!

#mastoadmin #mastodon

@RadicalEdward @drskrzyk

@thegibson

How do we get to see what your users see? Do you need/want to run a relay?

@RadicalEdward & @drskrzyk

Is there more #TechnicolorRainbow that I can't see? I'm not sure how whitespashe can see everything hackers.town can see publicly.... Do I need to run a relay?

#TechnicolorRainbow

There are good ideas in this book on federated social interaction, that the 'default' of their world maps to the silo-ed social media giants of ours. We are the people that choose to walk away, with all the pain that leaving our friends and families in the 'default' entails. Some of us schleppe our entire social media persona across with us, but eventually pare it down to the bare-bones ID's we have now.

Even our ability to choose to defederate from other instances embodies the walkaway ideal. If an instance is not amenable to moderation requests etc, you can just defederate and walk away. If there's anything the book tells us, is that we hold the power of our own social structure, and that those who refuse to be good people will inevitably end up lonely, on the losing side of history.

#TechnicolorRainbow

Every time I read this book, I'm taken with how similar the walkways are to our fediverse.

We have the ability to create these hubs of humanity, make them our homes, talk to other hubs using an open standard. We can integrate the best features of these instances into our own, make changes and put them out there for any other instance to use.

If an instance becomes hostile or abandoned, we can export our data and walkaway. The federated walkaway process is similar to that in the book. You can join another instance or create your own, keep the best of your old instance, or just start new.

@Tusky

Hey, any reason that my Tusky (stable) refuses to auto complete people when I try to @ them?

Anyone got a handy guide for young adults just out of Uni, on how to actually human and live? UK specific, if possible.

Boosts appreciated.

#TechnicolorRainbow

I've always wondered how well a git-based organisational system would work. Ideally, its sound, as issues can be raised and cleared, there's wiki functionality, and a history of work.

The ideal of communal living has always been interesting to me. The idea of doing things according to your ability to them, because they need to be done, rather than reward, is very much utopic. It reminds me a little of the Federation in Star Trek.

Most of the time, when I speak to people about it, they bring up the same sort of negative argument that's posted in the book, that people can just be lazy and let others provide for them.

“It doesn’t work at all in theory. In theory, we’re selfish assholes who want more than our neighbors, can’t be happy with a lot if someone else has a lot more. In theory, someone will walk into this place when no one’s around and take everything. In theory, it’s bullshit. This stuff only works in practice. In theory, it’s a mess.”

Oof. Generating a vanity #tor domain is pretty CPU intensive.

Once that's done, I'll be able to link it to my mastodon node!

Until then: slowness

#mastodon #sysadmin #mastoadmin

Happy #caturday all! Elliott has had a busy day of begging for food and sleeping, so is taking a well-earned nap!