 I wouldn't be the developer I am today without the fediverse Y'all have supported me so much You pushed me to grow beyond my comfort zone to learn and build things like https://loops.video, https://pubkit.net, and even hecking mobile apps!!! I'm forever grateful, and remain committed to pushing the fediverse forward at all costs We're just getting started I hope you remember to keep me humble, let's praise positive actions and growth, not developers like me This belongs to you ❤️
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 @dansup Awesome! Just signed up, this could make building https://github.com/maybeanerd/selfhosted-api-trader-game/issues/524 a lot better of an experience. I know there are some UI issues with PubKit.net, it’s my first tailwind project so please bear with me 😅  @dansup did you use tailwind because that’s what Laravel Jetsream comes with by any chance? (I did the same thing 😂)
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I mean across "most" fediverse projects, damn Threads/Meta and their industry leading NLP/ML Autospam used to be the best, but hey, I'm just some redneck in Canada, being #2 to them is ok I guess  @dansup Any anti-spam measures Facebook have are cancelled out by allowing advertisers to bribe them to deliver spam.  @dansup I was just thinking as I was reading the blog post that having actual human reviews of flagged content is probably worth much more to the end user than a cutting-edge mostly-good ML system. Sometimes I can't believe I wrote Autospam Who would have thought some PHP dev[0] ended up with the best spam detection and mitigation system across all fediverse projects. Like I'm so proud, it works amazingly and has prevented hundreds of thousands spam posts from appearing on feeds across the world!
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 @dansup PHP you said?! Gotta see if I manage to import it as a #Friendica addon somehow
 @dansup That makes my humble attempts at automated spam blockers which merely sifted through the email header to find where it really came from as opposed to where it did come from, look rather pathetic. That was 20+ years ago though You might be surprised to know that the official @pixelfed app uses several "internal" services Here are a few examples: - https://recovery.pixelfed.org is used to help users remember their instance - https://fedidb.org is used for auth and registration - https://beagle.pixelfed.net is used for the Discovery tab, allowing the smallest or newest instance to discover new content and people - https://pixelfed.org for our homemade Android updater + more! We love building and innovating 🚀 ✨ 😎
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The default rule suggestions are imported from https://beagle.pixelfed.net/api/v1/common/suggestions/rules I'm able to update them anytime, which is pretty cool! Back to https://pubkit.net development (third times a charm?) Due to recent events, I don't have an ETA for PubKit, but I am working hard to ship it ASAP I appreciate your patience, it will be worth the wait 😉 I'm usually pretty level headed and respectful, but a combination of stress, missed deadlines and working long hours lead to a situation where I acted a fool. I know I have a large following, and need to be mindful of what I say, especially regarding smaller, less popular projects. Thanks to @thisismissem for helping me realize this! I'll do better, and I am sorry. ❤️ I apologize for my past toots about Vernissage. While I appreciate what they contributed to the Pixelfed ecosystem, it really hurt that they announced their own platform without reaching out to me first. I know its petty to suggest avoiding them, and I know I'm bigger than that, so I'd like to apologize to @mczachurski Maybe we can work together to ensure optimal compatibility, more fedi photo sharing platforms is a good thing! We're all in this together, so let's act like it. ❤️  @dansup @mczachurski just when I thought that you where ‘only human’ too it turns out that you are a true god after all. 😍 @dansup Soon I will change the name of the Vernissage client for Pixelfed so people get used to it. Vernissage will become an independent platform (which will not happen soon, if at all). If this happens then it will be to the complete benefit of the users as they will have more choice and be able to choose the platform that suits them better. I ❤️ Pixelfed but after several months of using it I realized that it’s not best platform for my needs. @dansup Whole idea about fediverse is about cooperation between different platforms even if they have similar functionality. I admire your work. Personally, however, it seems to me that you are trying to do too many things at once. It is not possible for one person to do so many projects (after work). I understand that you love doing it, but you need to get some distance from it and think about it. It will be good for your health as well. Yours sincerely 😊 So the recent pixelfed.social outage was caused by the app server not being able to boot after a restart I couldn't even ssh in, I had to use recovery mode and was presented with this error message Girl, the kernel wasn't the only thing panicking...
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 After some digging in, I was able to debug the issue and work on a fix thanks to ChatGPT Seriously, ChatGPT is a life saver, I'm not an ops person but I was able to use the tips it provided to diagnose the issue, and after learning a bit about GRUB and shit I was able to fix it properly. I'll be paying more attention to kernel updates and implementing a new update procedure + adding another standby app server to prevent this in the future. Running prod services are fun, until they aren't  @dansup everyone knows this, I mean this breaks your legs every now and then, boot loader and/or kernel panic. Local access to the server or rescue mode is your find in such cases.
So shoulder padding for your work. I fixed the grub issue on the pixelfed.social server, now I can fix the actual issue and restore service in the next 15 minutes. Sorry about the outage, no data was lost, a mis-configuration combined with routine maintenance lead to this failure. I'm getting better at devops tho, so thank god I was able to fix this myself and now I'm looking into better redundancy and procedures to prevent this in the future. I’m going out of my comfort zone with PubKit and using Inertia and Tailwind for the first time. I do have a TailwindUI membership, so I’m able to move fast and build this gorgeous app. I won’t be able to open source it though, not until I replace TailwindUI, but I will get to that later this summer!  @dansup |
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@dansup looking forward to the beta of this Loops app being released
@dansup You’re doing amazing work. Please don’t let yourself get burned out.