wilkie (quilt appreciator)As a niche academic, I've never related more to a princess ever in my life. Thanks #SheRa.
@greenmanspirit
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Bob Mottram(cringe) This is what I'd call technologically illiterate journalism. It's not quite as bad as complaining about the name of the project (insert crying baby gif), but it's not far elevated above that level.
https://medium.com/dark-mountain/fatal-flaw-with-mastodon-1ef0cb1965ed
He mentions that the system is distributed, but obviously hasn't grokked what that actually means.
Servers have user accounts. I know, shocking, isn't it? Same applies for email, xmpp, forums and just about any other service located on a server. They're not all magically synchronized by some universally agreed protocol. Nor would it be reasonable for them to be.
If you want a pre-internet analogy, there could be Bob living in Manchester and Bob living in Glasgow, and they might be different Bobs!
Scandalized? I thought you would be.
https://medium.com/dark-mountain/fatal-flaw-with-mastodon-1ef0cb1965ed
He mentions that the system is distributed, but obviously hasn't grokked what that actually means.
Servers have user accounts. I know, shocking, isn't it? Same applies for email, xmpp, forums and just about any other service located on a server. They're not all magically synchronized by some universally agreed protocol. Nor would it be reasonable for them to be.
If you want a pre-internet analogy, there could be Bob living in Manchester and Bob living in Glasgow, and they might be different Bobs!
Scandalized? I thought you would be.
Test toot, please disregard
Still haven't figured out the federation problem. More work tomorrow on it. Its just really disappointing to find an awesome project and not be able to figure out what went wrong...
#AdminNeedHelp Is there a way to remove a PubSubHubbub subscription? I think there is a bad server on the list affecting my instance getting toots from .social. On the list of subscriptions, .social is the only instance below one that hasn't synced for two days.
Unfollowed and refollowed all the accounts I was not seeing on my instance from mastodon.social and still not receiving their toots.
@gargon
@support
I am no longer getting messages from this instance on my instance. The other ones I follow appear to still be showing up. Is there a reason my server would have forgotten about this one?
If you are on mastodon.social and I don't see your post from my hobaugh.social instance, I am not ignoring you, the messages aren't making it to my server from mastodon.social.
If you want, I have set up my own instance and you can follow me at https://hobaugh.social/@adam while I finish configuring the server.