David Rasmussen, aka Rasamoto @Bertrecords@qoto.org

Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration

No money laundering here, people. Nope. Not at all. Speculators buy multi-hundred batches of #Trump #collectibles because they're valuable!

Nothing to see here... move along.

Hello new followers … it’s apparently purge night on Twitter. If you wouldn’t mind, please introduce yourself if we don’t know each other and I don’t follow you. We all have to make a new community here. Thanks. My intro is pinned.

@mike

I read your post:

https://empty.coffee/notes-on-standing-up-a-mastodon-server-aws/

Excellent stuff! I've done pretty much the same with S3 and Cloudfront; but in my case, coming out of a Vultr Ubuntu 22.04 server. I hit the same memory issue trying to compile; 2GB minimum was required.

I did it for the same reason - to understand how this works and scales in the back. I've learned lots and eager to learn more.

The IAM usage did intrigue me; that's something I can't do. On the other hand, I'm on fail2banned up

#mastoadmin

My series continues.

We need to plan faster with bigger goals in mind – but we’ve been distracted. We’ve been in triage mode with our organization in dealing with the pandemic, supply chain challenges, a volatile economy, and workforce issues.

That’s why trend #10 of my “23 Trends for 2023” has to do with the idea of ‘revisiting strategic agility’ – which is to say, the ability to plan faster with bigger goals in mind!

https://jimcarroll.com/2022/12/23-trends-for-2023-10-revisiting-strategic-agility/

People on the other site keep telling me that Mastodon is just an echo chamber... which... is not at all how I'm experiencing it. Lots of people seem willing to disagree with me and make their disagreements clear.

They just don't suggest that I don't deserve to live when they do. And that seems healthier.

Mastodon News Sources

General News - US and World

BBC News (World) Bot - @BBCWorld
BBC News Bot - @BBC
CNN Bot - @CNN
CNN Breaking News - @cnnbrk
DW (Deutsche Welle) News Bot - @dwnews_bot
NPR US News Bot - @NPR_USNews
NYTimes Bot - @NYTimes
Reuters Bot - @reuters
Rolling Stone - @RollingStone
The Guardian US Bot - @TheGuardian_us
Wall Street Journal Bot - @wsj
Washington Post Bot - @WashingtonPost

Tech News

Ars Technica - @arstechnica
MacRumors.com - @macrumors

What a tragedy that this good man, who has devoted his life to public service, who has made mistakes and learned from them, and who still expresses a profound understand of America’s public-health problems, should remain a target of vitriol from the worst among us. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04432-7

I don’t know who is on this Twitter platform any more but tomorrow on @inthebubblepod is the episode I’ve been dying to hear and finally made myself on what needs to be known about crypto.

Crypto hucksters can feel free to comment cause I ain’t reading them.

“If you choose not to find joy in the snow, you will have less joy in your life but still the same amount of snow”

I’m not sure who said it, but it seems relevant with the coming storm. #photography #LandscapePhotography #minnesota