Aaro KoskinenJan 30, 2025

I disabled video caching/re-encoding on my #Mastodon instance. This allowed to purge ffmpeg and related libraries (128 packages in total, over 15% of all installed).

Why? Because ffmpeg and video attachments can easily trigger a DoS on a small server. Also, I never even watch any videos here.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/16496

Possibly also image processing imposes the same risk, but I haven't seen that happening yet. I wouldn't mind a text-only social media.

#SelfHosting #ScalingDown

Option to throttle ffmpeg processes · Issue #16496 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch Running a small Mastodon instance on a single server, where Puma, Sidekiq, streaming, Postgres, and everything else all live together, ffmpeg is a huge liability. Just running two or three ff...

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Show threadclaudeJun 3, 2024

the four small videos of the #amiga version of the #tokamak card #game #CardGame under development, originally on my amiga channel on #DiodeZone ( @amiga ) are now #SelfHosted at home, linked from https://mathr.co.uk/web/tokamak.html#Amiga

#ScalingDown

Tokamak :: mathr

A card game.