osgav 📶

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:globe_with_meridians: https://osgav.run/ :globe_with_meridians: "engineering" stuff by day... and by night... :robot_face: :robot_face: :robot_face:

Built a script to figure out what network (ASN) each Mastodon instance on the global list uses. This correlates pretty well to provider. Also went ahead and ran the script on the current Masto-verse as of a few minutes ago, so y'all have a reasonably up to date version of the data to play with.

https://gist.github.com/iansltx/c1c25c54832410e32bf78d663b7a6865

/cc @maiyannah @TheKinrar

Mmmm love a blog with a Grafana screenshot thrown in.

Setting up a Web API for Success: https://medium.com/salesforce-engineering/setting-up-a-web-api-for-success-ff039f76d322

Hmm line breaks in my toots seem to post with 2 line breaks. Pretty sure my first toot wasn't like that when I posted it... anybody else observed this?

PSA: if you see a remote toot and think "wow that is an amazing toot, why does it have 0 favs/boosts/replies"? It probably doesn't. It's just that nobody from this instance follows someone who fav'ed/boosted/replied to it.

One thing I found useful is to just eagerly follow people you see in the Federated timeline saying stuff you like. You can always unfollow/block later.

The Masto experience gets fleshed out the more you use an instance. Keep in mind toot.cafe is 4 days old. 😄

I made a diagram to help you understand how the different timelines/columns work:

https://techn.ical.ist/assets/help.svg https://techn.ical.ist/media/zhoMEHOzhT2r6zlz034

Just proved to myself that this is a truly open federated system, by finding someone on a non-Mastodon oStatus server and following them. OPEN STANDARDS ARE AWESOME :grin: