🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@inditoot
Our cost comes almost entierly from the masto side right now. Cost of indexing virtually the entire fediverse.

@snder

@inditoot
The cost is almost entierly due to a massive federation footprint on #QOTO. We keep full federation history, index federated toots, and federate with the vast majority of the fediverse.
As a result the database for Masto alone is many terrabytes large and growing rather quickly. Takes a lot of processing power to index the entire fediverse.

@snder

@snder peertube and similar were hosted but currently downa s we are revamping the whole ecosystem. But yea, thats just a tip of the iceburg for what is planned though.

The funds came from both myself and other investors who funded the project we are going to be chatting about. Qoto is one small non-profit component in the bigger picture there.

@snder Thats Qoto, but keep in mind qoto is intending to be bigger than just a mastodon instance. The intention is to be a full ecosystem for engineering (software and hardware) solutions, specifically the collaboration side.

@snder Last month cost me about $600 and next month will come down to closer to $200 after i did some cost saving. Luckily we have over 10K in our funding coffers so we are good for a while.

@foxhkron I could see some benefit to being able to interact with the fediverse through email. No need for two seperate identifiers. I could email someone and it would just be a direct message.

@foxhkron suspected as much. Though i would be curious to see mail servers support Activity pub as an alternative protocol to smtp...

@foxhkron I mean the fediverse was inspired by email. It kind of already is federated.

@cwebber@octodon.social "Ghostage" just by itself is catchy.. not so much the whole phrase.

@snder Bigger and better servers. Its costing us several hundred a month to maintain that sort of capability.

I passed out pretty hard last night with my notebook and pens still out on my bed. Rolled all over them last night :(

#meme #joke #jokes #humour #writing #calligraphy

Technically every fountain is magickal...

So I recently got a few thousand boards printed up for my protoboard design. Tested them on a few circuits and im amazed how well they work. I'm writing the datasheet now and we will begin selling on digikey, mouser, and many other big names soon.

In the meantime any EE people out there want a free board? We are going to hand out a few hundred for free to get people interested.

Here are some past posts I made about it for some background info. I've also attached an image of the final boards.

https://qoto.org/@freemo/101518455796695415

https://qoto.org/@freemo/101517564046276857

https://qoto.org/@freemo/101471853619646546

#RF #EE #Electronics #Engineering #Science #ElectricalEngineering #RFEngineering #HAM #hamradio

@fsnk As far as a Dos goes it was kinda lame. Didnt even register on our servers

@fsnk yea but to what end?

@p
Yea I will wait it out for now. Thanks for the info

@snder @Stoned2TheBone

@p
It didnt do me any harm so I'm not upset.

My main concern was two fold

1) People may now see I have obviously fake followers and assume my 4.4K follow count is fake. Aside from these new users 4K of them are real. So it hurts me more than helps in terms of impression it gives people.

2) Due to #1 people might think i intentionally created the fake users and thus it may seem as though I am dishonest.

Thing is can the admin even reverse this? If not I may be forced to block the domain just to ensure those followers get dropped as I'm not sure if there is another way.

@snder @Stoned2TheBone