@design_RG I was a little confused on this, are we supposed to be able to log into peertube and that discourse with the same account? Or do we need to make separate ones?

@ramob You will need to create new accounts for the other services -- as there's no integration of user acccounts between them yet.

We suggest using the same username so it's easier to recognize people. 👍️

@design_RG ok thank you! I'll go make one I suppose.

@ramob You are welcome. Don't worry with the Discourse account for now, as the Forums are still broken. A bad version upgrade and everything is knocked off kilter.

Content is safe, hopefully, plus there are backups. Hopefully. 😄

@design_RG For these is there a subscription/system in place to help support them? Also what is the difference between the two gitlabs? Is Funkwhale federated soundcloud?

NextCloud - cloud.qoto.org
GitLab - git.qoto.org
GitLab pages (including user hosted pages) - https://*.qoto.io
FunkWhale - audio.qoto.org
PeerTube - video.qoto.org
Discourse - discourse.qoto.org

@ramob Before I start responding to this message -- some good news, as the Discourse Forums are back online. :)

discourse.qoto.org/

And on to these questions :

- subscription : we don't have any special system, our admin has been paying all the costs for the instance and the other services out of pocket (and this adds up substantially -- the mastodon instance alone is over 120 USD per month). User participation is appreciated, and if you want to do any more, please contact our admin, Freemo.

- gitlab : I think the one at git.qoto.org is the official instance one. I don't know about the other address, Freemo is the one who uses it most and the best person to clarify.

- Funkwhale is a music streaming service, and you can store and play your tracks from there from anywhere. It's possible to see and play other user shared tracks if permissions are given too.

@design_RG Awesome thank you. I've been talking to @freemo a but but great to hear it's coming along I'll have to jump in there after I get done studying today.

Is this hosted on a VPS/cloud or what? Just curios if the cost is mainly internet throughput or actual infrastructure cost.

@ramob

>> Is this hosted on a VPS/cloud or what? Just curios if the cost is mainly internet throughput or actual infrastructure cost.

The whole Qoto.org is hosted via masto.host/ services, which keeps it up and ticking with basic maintenance, backups, etc.

But at a steep cost, which depends on how much data transfers are used, the amount of RAM needed for each virtual server, etc.

Self-Hosting is a good way to cut costs down drastically, but it comes at a cost of time and labour needed to keep an eye on things frequently.

Koyu.space recently switch over to self-hosting and I imagine their costs came down a lot. Their server is described in their About pages :

koyu.space/about/more#technica

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@design_RG

thats interesting, I saw they did that but I hadn't looked to far into it. I agree though Self-hosting has a lot of problems that can pop up...not to mention the internet pipe limitation.

@freemo Thank you for the breakdown on how the git-lab pieces works different.

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