 Alright, relay.joinmastodon.org is offline. It was keeping up with the release candidate level of activity but it's not ready for so many servers using it. Some communities are already running their own relay, and that will be fine. For now, feel free to disable/delete relay.joinmastodon.org from your relays settings page. Sorry for the trouble. mastodon.social update: Much-hated "regex filters" are gone. Click on the cog icon and navigate to Filters, where you can add keywords or phrases to mute. @Gargron any chance of them coming back? I love them in Ivory, but would like them to be set on the server for when I’m using a different client I'd love to see regex filters at least be an option. It's difficult to manage a huge list of >50 muted terms. Additionally allowing Regex could let people "share" filter lists easily. Draft: How to become a successful artist on Mastodon 👀 Do you think I included sane advice? Anything important I missed? Some other toots I should embed? On one hand I could probably write a blog post detailing how to build a basic ActivityPub server... On the other, it will do nothing to attract a non-tech audience 🤔
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@Gargron Is this blog post still relevant today? I tried following the steps however I couldn't get them to work. Therefore I created this issue here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/23735 @lamp @bill I see but did the webfinger step work for you? I didn't receive any GET requests when I tried to look up my @user@homeserver on several Mastodon instances. I was expecting that to work because the post says: Maybe it will start working after I post a message 🤔 @Gargron I'm having a lot of trouble getting this to work still. I get an HTTP error 503 when I try to search for my user user1@revpub.net through mastodon.social. I have an nginx virtual host running with a JSON file named 'actor' and the webfinger static file at .well-known/webfinger. When I look through the nginx logs I don't see anything that gives any information on what could be going wrong.  I've made a deliberate choice against a quoting feature because it inevitably adds toxicity to people's behaviours. You are tempted to quote when you should be replying, and so you speak at your audience instead of with the person you are talking to. It becomes performative. Even when doing it for "good" like ridiculing awful comments, you are giving awful comments more eyeballs that way. No quote toots. Thank's
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@Gargron and because you have made this deliberately impossible, others find ways around you. congratulations. i used to be an avid hn reader but at some point the takes grow stale, i already know what the comments are going to say, so it's boring to read |
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@Gargron Did any alternative emerge? I'm looking into mastodon right now, but can't figure out the federation.
@Gargron Any time this will come back? I like having my account on my own little server but still be able to explore the wide world from there ^^ I found a few relays but not too many...