🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@barefootstache Not in the least, you jsut need to be a member of IEEE.

@trinsec Anyone can get one.

I now officially own the email address: freemo@ieee.org

I doubt ill use it, might setup forwarding if I can. But it still feels cool to have :)

#IEEE

@AmpBenzScientist

I think people just use arabs to mean "people of arabic speaking descent"... probably fairly technically incorrect of course.

@whosthatguurrrl@mstdn.party

@lucifargundam

Im nott sure setting up a sidekiq queue on a remote server is a good idea honestly. Its ok if its on a different server in the local network if you have a nice fast network, but I wouldnt do it over the internet.... that said, you could do itt in theory, I just dont think it would perform very well (haven't tried though).

@KuJoe @Gargron @stux

@peterwhisker The code on the server is more up to date than the repo, I just need to sync it (which i will do in the coming days/week as im working on it again).

The issue with compatability is that QOTO uses parts of the ActivityPub standard (the standard mastodon talks) that mastodon doesnt. For example a client that is mastodon-only might just assume a 500 word limit without querying the API to ask what the real limit is, even though the API call is part of the standard.

Long story short, the problem is with poorly built clients and not with how old QOTO is.

That said QOTO does need to pull in some new code from vanilla, so we are a bit behind, but not by that much.

@wmvanstone Very cool, thanks!

@trinsec Oh thanks, very important skill you have there :)

@robryk

Off the top of my head i think the link is https://git.qoto.org/qoto/qoto

@obi

@admitsWrongIfProven

Some servers are running on some very minimal machines. There are a ton of one-person instances running on raspberryPis

@bonifartius

@obi

I have heard of a handful of instances running off our code, yes. I cant recall what those are off the top of my head or if they are even still around.

A few instances have copies our about/more page with our rules too.

@robryk

@gpowerf Its been a pleasure

@peterwhisker The version doesnt really mean much anymore in that sense as we are a fork of mastodon. The versions dont track as I have brought in bug fixes and new features piece meal.

That said there are some new features we want to bring in from vanilla (and from other forks). I am talking with one of the other Mastodon coders out there and offering to pay him to do some of that work. In the past I have done it but I am very busy and have more money than time right now so I am doing it that way.

I spoke with him about it just recently so he is reviewing the code this weekend and then we are doing to negotiate and start doing some of that work.

It will probably be on a new major version ourselves in a week or so.

@bonifartius We have plenty of breathing room though, even now we could handle more.

@trinsec The one from a half year ago is the first time anyone heard musk was buying twitter... so they are related :)

@obi

So QOTO is a custom fork of mastodon, we speak the same protocol called ActivityPub and we are very similar to mastodon (being a fork of it). Point is we use the ActivityPub standard in a more "complete" way, as in, we use more features of it than vanilla mastodon. For example we have a different max post size.

Anyway, if a client is written to work with the API correctly, then they work with us just fine. But instead if they assume we are the same as vanilla mastodon (and just assumes some things) then it will break on us and not others.

So long story short, if the app is written correctly for ActivityPub then it works with us just the same as plain mastodon.

@robryk

@bonifartius Network I need to find some stats for that.. in terms of jobs, we went from 1.5 million jobs per day to 7.7 million jobs... so id expect network traffic to be somewhere in the same ballpark