@ferh is the new admin of the server.
Demoted myself to moderator :)
We'll do the migration to his servers in the coming days. We'll try to make it as invisible as possible, but there may be some slight service disruption. In any case, we'll be back on his hardware asap !
The domain name mastodon.host will be transferred from Gandi to Namecheap in a few ( I don't have an ETA :/ ), thanks to the insane pricing on the .host at Gandi.
Brace for it, there may be some bumps in the road during that operation, we cannot preconfigure domains before transfer apparently...
@ajroach42 has been promoted to admin on https://peertube.mastodon.host , he's got the keys, welcome to him :)
Thanks to @djsundog , we now have audio upload on https://mastodon.host , not only videos :)
and thanks to @nolan too, I kinda C/P from your github :)
What sets mastodon.host appart? As a general instance, we are not centered on a specific theme, or a specific language. Everyone is welcome as long as they follow the few rules we have. We always run the latest stable version of Mastodon, providing you a stock experience, with the following modifications: 2048 character limit (not 500). 512 character limits for the account's bio (not 160). full column width (not fixed size). more search results (20 instead of 5 per type of search). Audio upload (not limited to videos only). full text search of statuses (not restricted to searching tags and users). trending tags are displayed on the main UI ( and a more complete view is available here) boosts and replies are shown in the timelines (more complete view for everyone). Your mastodon.host account is also a XMPP account (Federated Instant Messaging, take a look online to find a client and use your mastodon.host username and password to configure it, you can also use our online web client). Woohoo! two services in one! We also have a very good view of the federation (our federated timeline gives you a more broad view of the Mastodon network than a 'normal' instance, there's a lot to read in a lot of languages). We also host a Peertube instance for the convenience. Try it and let us know what you think ! In the same vein, we host a Funkwhale instance for the convenience. Try it and let us know what you think ! If you want to be on a more quiet, moderated instance, or use another AP implementation, we host a Pleroma instance for the convenience. This is the same fediverse as with Mastodon, but with a different default UI and way more optimized backend. Try and see which one you prefer ! Now if you want a different UI, the stock mastodon one does not please you, you can check Pinafore. We do also host for the convenience a video Conference server ( Jitsi Meet ) We have a mastodon relay for other instances to bootstrap their timelines: https://relay.mastodon.host Although we are a medium+ sized instance, we'd like to keep the feeling that you are at home and safe here.
We are silencing humblr.social by default now... it seems like they can't nsfw their pics correctly...
if you still want to follow you can manually, but they won't appear anymore on the public timelines.
Thanks to @ajroach42 we found that our peertube instance https://peertube.mastodon.host lost some videos.. no idea how it happened but it seems like videos that were not transcoded ( because below the 480p minimum transcode resolution activated ) were lost. Not present anymore on disk, and I only keep 2 days of peertube data backups ( space issue, you can imagine why ).
The database though was still referencing those videos, so I ran a cleanup sanity check. It impacted 442 entries, that are now deleted from the DB.
Apparently it appeared on other instances too, so instance owners, you may want to check. We are currently suspecting an issue during an upgrade...
( Easy one liner to adapt to your pgsql creds and domain and min resolution supported, you also may want to remove the psql DELETE for just a sanity check ):
cd /var/www/peertube/storage/videos; psql -U peertube -p 5432 -h 127.0.0.1 -q -c "select url from video where url like 'YOURFULLURL/%';" peertube_prod | grep https | cut -d / -f 6 | while read -r uuid; do if [ ! -f $uuid-480.mp4 ]; then echo "File not found: $uuid"; psql -U peertube -p 6432 -h 127.0.0.1 -q -c "DELETE FROM video where url = 'YOURFULLURL/videos/watch/$uuid'" peertube_prod; fi; done
Pär I just noticed you gave us a $100 donation for mastodon.host THANK YOUUUUUUUU
WOW !!!
around 2 months hosting sponsored thanks to you !!
This is a post to support #pleroma and their dev team.
They do a great job, thank you for your hard work !!!
We do have a pleroma instance at https://soteria.mastodon.host , and https://relay.mastodon.host is stable since we migrated to @kaniini implementation :)
On another note, the day we are able to migrate m.h fully to pleroma is also the day I will be able to divide server resources by around 5 for the same service. Tested and validated... Yep, it is light and fast...
v2.6.2 had a bug that rendered your home timeline empty ( sidekiq overloaded by stuck ffmpeg processes, preventing everything else in the default queue from happening ).
Upgrade done to 2.6.5, it should clear out in the coming minutes/hours ( we have 300k+ items in sidekiq queues now ).
Please mastodon.host services users: Let's all say Thank you to C. C. for a generous 24e donation !
This is the second month they are being very generous with us. Thank you Again !
gled => Moved