instances.mastodon.xyz lists 326 nodes with over 123,000 combined users. Incredible
@Gargron It's impressive, isn't it? *sigh* Although it does make that article draft I wrote already out of date on more than one level. Oh well, things seem to be going well. :)

@Gargron And here's one more, once I figure out what I still need to configure :)

Is there a way to use the file system for uploads or is S3 the only useful alternative?

@Gargron Have a hunch we are just barely getting warmed up.

@Gargron * people ;)

(Twitter and Facebook have users – the term used by Silicon Valley and drug dealers to describe the people they addict to their products and exploit. We have *people* / members.) :)

PS. Congratulations; it is incredible indeed :)

@aral thanks! By the way, open public timelines APIs are in master and live on .social, unless I'm misremembering because i just woke up at 5am

@Gargron You are a gem. Thank you so much. I'll update the sample apps/docs in Set to use it and then write something up to try and spread the word to tutorial writers/trainers/etc.

(Hello from a slightly less early 6AM start in Sofia) :)

@aral cool to see you playing around a bit here, man

I had a feeling you'd be into this scene

@aral @Gargron is there are way to prevent attacks with open API?
@Gargron @Elizafox I wonder what percent of them are duplicates
@Gargron If individual admins decide with which sites to federate, some sort of directory is essential, isn't it?
@jasongreen that's a blacklist not a whitelist
@Gargron I haven't seen the admin side yet, so I probably am misunderstanding. When an instance builds the federated timeline it displays, does it automatically pull from all the instances where its users follow someone, or does the instance admin create some sort of list of remote instances from which the local instance builds its federated timeline?
@Gargron wondering why the flagship instance lists 753 peers?
@Tournesol people submit their instance to the instances last manually, while the about page is just count is distinct domains of accounts in its db
@Gargron thanks! So the number of members is possibly higher...