kev

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[โ€“] kev@mcr.town 1 points 1 year ago

Weren't Gitea working on this?

 

I noticed the new logo is a duck. Are ducks, then, allowed here?

I was going to add a photo of some ducks but couldn't find any. I just took this photo of baby swans this afternoon though!

[โ€“] kev@mcr.town 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cool. I think I'm going to give it a few days in case I deleted someone I didn't want to. If I hear no complaints (I'm pretty sure I'm the only real local user on my instance anyway ๐Ÿ˜‚) I'll delete out the db. Thanks!

[โ€“] kev@mcr.town 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Did you actually delete them or set the deleted column? I'm anxious of leaving dangling references which might cause errors to pop up elsewhere but I'd rather get rid of them completely if that doesn't seem to cause problems.

I also found it wasn't reflected in the user count until I manually manipulated the site_aggregates table. I don't know if that would have caught up eventually.

[โ€“] kev@mcr.town 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Hey! I've been caught up in this. Have closed registration for now but what do I do with the created accounts? Unless I'm missing something I can't find the admin tools to deal with users except through their posts (and they haven't posted anything).

[โ€“] kev@mcr.town 3 points 1 year ago

Ooh. I like this idea! When I'm at a computer again I'll look into adding a similar sidebar to !manchester@mcr.town

[โ€“] kev@mcr.town 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's great, isn't it? I was having a conversation with someone on here the other day and didn't realise they were on Mastodon. I'd shared the original post there and replies turned up in Lemmy and vice-versa. It's very cool.

The only thing I wish could be improved is the having to manually go back to your home instance and search for a community on another server. It feels even worse than the same process on Mastodon, which already feels clunky.

[โ€“] kev@mcr.town 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Eugen Rochko is CEO of Mastodon gGmbH which is the company which develops the Mastodon software. It isn't the software itself; that's open source and could be forked and developed by anyone. Nor is it any of the instances which can be operated by anyone who wants to and they don't even have to use Mastodon's code to do so.

I could set up a company to run an instance and call myself CEO if I wanted, it would only mean something to users on my instance, I guess.

The overlapping names are, probably unintentionally, slightly confusing.

[โ€“] kev@mcr.town 2 points 1 year ago

I'm old enough to remember when Facebook Messenger was compatible with XMPP (as was Google Hangouts, then called Talk). You could talk to people on there from your own server, you could use whatever open source client you wanted. It was great.

Then they cut off the federation. Then they cut off the API.

They'll do the same again. Once enough of your friends and family are on their network they cut of federation and you have to move to them if you don't want to get cut off with it.

[โ€“] kev@mcr.town 1 points 1 year ago

My wife and I are currently rewatching all of The Good Fight, which is still my favourite thing ever on the telly. We're also rewatching Ranganation, which totally got us through lockdown.

Tunes wise, I'm working through the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die using https://1001albumsgenerator.com/ - today I've got If I Could Only Remember My Name by David Crosby which, if I'm honest, is not doing it for me.

 

Anyone in, from or interested in Greater Manchester?

I guess this will be more difficult now that the Reddit sub is back online but I've set up a Manchester group at !manchester@mcr.town - please feel free to come along, post stuff and have fun!

You might notice it's on a Manchester-based instance too (mcr.town) - feel free to join that too. It's a sibling site to our small (but active enough) Mastodon site (mcr.wtf) which is also open to new people

[โ€“] kev@mcr.town 2 points 1 year ago

Day off today because US company I work for has given everyone today's US day off!

After a traditional trip to the tip I've got on the tram to wander about random places. First the Viaduct Garden at Castlefield. Now I've ended up at Media City for no good reason other than that's where the tram line goes.

[โ€“] kev@mcr.town 1 points 1 year ago

๐Ÿ‘‹ I'm from Torquay originally. Living in Manchester these days, though.

[โ€“] kev@mcr.town 2 points 1 year ago

Not so sunny now!

If you're interested in a Manchester based group, btw, I've set one up at !manchester@mcr.town

 

I'm using the ansible setup from the Lemmy docs which is working great but I'm concerned I'm going to use disk space quickly.

I can see that pict-rs supports S3 style storage. I'd like to switch to the Wasabi I already have working well with Mastodon. Is there a decent guide for how to configure this anywhere? I've searched but can't find anything.

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