Got 2FA working nicely on the backend and in the settings panel :)

(this is not an April fools; I mean I am a fool and it's april but it's a legit video)

#Fedicat will list the account rss feed in #GotoSocial profiles when it’s available

Oh! I completely forgot to share this when I got it in the mail a while ago!
@martijn sent me an envelope full of these cute little #stickers (and confetti )! A belated but heartfelt thank you Martijn!

Gotta see what other stickers I still have, and decorate my far too pristine laptop with them.

my adventures in #selfhosting - day 104 (pride edition)

Good morning Fedi friends!

Aw pride is a powerful thing.

I'd like to think that I'm pretty zen and detached and successfully suppressing my ego... but when it comes to things I'm passionate about (read: tech, self-hosting) I cannot let things go.

I had a very very sweet shout-out on a Fediverse podcast last week... but said shout-out mentioned my self-hosting issues and that maybe self-hosting isn't for everyone. I felt that I had to correct the record (even if the mention came with the nicest intention)... because I have ZERO issues self-hosting #GoToSocial, #Friendica and #Pixelfed (thanks to the magic of #YunoHost). All my troubles had to do with #Ghost. (And Ghost is wonderful, it's not related to it, just external circumstances).

So, determined to defend my honor (ha!) on Friday I achieved the impossible: all by myself, following guides I found online, I managed to install #Apache and #Varnish on my VPS and connected Varnish to Ghost. My site was already fast, now it's BLAZING fast.

So I'm giving it another go, moving from Ghost (Pro) to my self-hosted Ghost installation. I turned off subscriptions on https://blog.elenarossini.com... next step is disconnecting the subdomain DNS (a CNAME record) from Ghost... and redirecting traffic to my new blog (https://news.elenarossini.com).

I know how to code things in NGINX for the redirect to work (I think, via guides I found online).

My big question is: how do I tweak my old DNS records for https://blog.elenarossini.com so that NGINX on my self-hosted site https://news.elenarossini.com will correctly pick up the traffic requests? Do I need to set up A and AAAA records for the subdomain blog to point to my VPS with the self-hosted Ghost blog? Any advice would be greatly appreciated! ​

Oh and I learned my lesson and - unlike last time - I am making big changes on a Monday morning, when I have the whole workweek ahead of me (instead of a Friday afternoon 1 hour before picking up my child from nursery school). You live and learn! ​

#MySoCalledSudoLife

I've restarted the migration of my phpc.social account to this one. The first time I did it, my #gotosocial instance was not fully operational due to a wasm incompatibility with the server's cpu. Only a quarter of my followers had changed their subscription. I had to wait 30 days before trying again.
Now all my old followers have migrated to my new account

Welcome back!

Folks who have a single-person #GoToSocial instance: what's your setup/hosting situation?

I want to try it out but am waffling about whether to go with managed hosting, or a VPS, or what. I may honestly start off by self-hosting with #Yunohost on my old netbook simply because it's the easiest and cheapest.

#AskFedi

I love to use #phanpy for my #GoToSocial instance so decided I should try hosting it myself instead of constantly relying on the phanpy.social. This is my first post from my #selfhosted Phanpy site, with hopefully many more to follow

Soon I'll (most probably) have to travel to US for work, and I am somehow concerned for my privacy and also for my physical safety: news reports concerning many tourists and expat workers make me feel unwelcome.

I'll of course let the immigration check roam into my work phone and my work PC, which are provided by my company, but I have no intention of bringing my private ones along, as I can access my socials from any browser if I'll ever need to.

This is to avoid explanations or justifications, or useless arguments. I'm convinced to comply, since the alternative is fear and uncertainty.

As for my website, I'll keep it up and running. There are no critical statements towards the current administration. Maybe I can't say the same for my podcast, for which I brought offline a single, maybe to emotional, episode.

As for my #gotosocial instance, should I turn it off for the time of my trip? It should not be indexed anywhere as long as I am aware, but it could, however be browsed at the moment. Would it raise more suspicion if it's off or not? What do you think?

#Fedilab 3.31.1 has been published.

Added:
- Add MinT machine translation system support
- Add support "instance only" for #GoToSocial

Fixed:
- GIF not displayed in timelines
- Fix a crash when unpinning timelines
- Top bar coloring at scroll for conversations
- Black screen when going back from the #Peertube section

https://codeberg.org/tom79/Fedilab/releases/tag/3.31.1

Just got 2FA working nicely on the back end, API, and login flow :) Time to add it to the settings panel now.

Good morning Fedi friends!

It's been 99 days since I started self-hosting my own Fediverse instances. Crazy how time flies!

I've been a bit absent from here this week because I started exploring the world of #PeerTube from the POV of a creator.

I just set up my own account on #MakerTube - so that I can write a guide that is accessible to many (as opposed to skipping this step and going straight to self-hosting).

Anyway, here is my PeerTube account: https://makertube.net/a/elena/video-channels

I have been able to follow it from #Mastodon and #Friendica without a problem, but I keep getting an error message when I try to subscribe with my #GoToSocial username. The exact message: "Cannot fetch information from this remote account." Does anybody have the same issue? (as in: people on GoToSocial, can you subscribe to PeerTube channels?)

Wishing you all a lovely day ​

P.S.: about to go offline for the rest of the day because... there's no pre-school in France on Wednesdays and the garderie keeps my little one up until 12:30. So apologies in advance if I'm slow to reply to messages.

#MySoCalledSudoLife

I wonder if there is actually a proper way to set retention on #gotosocial I'm afraid I might run out of space after a while

Anyone using #litestream for an #sqlite DB

I have a 3GB database, and Litestream is replicating it to another server. However, it seems to be running out of control with disk space. On the original server (where the live DB is) is a generations folder under the hidden litestream folder. It is full of WAL files. Currently over 37,000 files consuming 118GB of disk space.

My config includes retention: 24h and retention-check-interval: 1h with a snapshot-interval: 4h. I understood it would delete anything older than 24 hours. Am I doing something wrong? These wal files go back to the day I started using litestream

#GoToSocial #gts @gotosocial@thefedi.forum

Anyone using #litestream for an #sqlite DB

I have a 3GB database, and Litestream is replicating it to another server. However, it seems to be running out of control with disk space. On the original server (where the live DB is) is a generations folder under the hidden litestream folder. It is full of WAL files. Currently over 37,000 files consuming 118GB of disk space.

My config includes retention: 24h and retention-check-interval: 1h with a snapshot-interval: 4h. I understood it would delete anything older than 24 hours. Am I doing something wrong? These wal files go back to the day I started using litestream

#GoToSocial #gts @gotosocial

Creating A GoToSocial Instance on FediHost

https://video.fedihost.co/w/4wmHZT6YhrvoHeuBqTLYWd